While I strongly wish HE offered email notifications as a built-in service, I can understand corporate's reluctance to include it (not just for cost/upkeep reasons, but the risks of having the service fail due to blacklisting, outages, etc.). The community apps listed above should suffice for most users.
I love that we can easily connect to outboard utilities like Multi-System Reactor™ or NodeRed to generate email notifications...
...but the ability to send emails not just to ourselves but to other members of my household as well – not simply via 'Notifications' nor necessarily on GMail – directly from RM would be truly helpful.