After a few days of investigation, I got a solid answer. The Service Desk users will need to email to your connected email to successfully send in the email. The default Jira email is only accessible to licensed users. For the walk-around, I added a system - do not reply message on the footer of my messages to ensure all users are aware of the appropriate email address for communication.
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