is a personal email to one person grounds for a defamatory lawsuit, below is the email only intended for one person, he sent it over to the lawyer

Do you realize Attorney goes around from city to city running seminars hoping to run into people like Marsha and you? Thinking only of enticing them into filing a lawsuit that they can most likely never win? He only does this for financial gain, all in a very legal manner, of course. There has to be changes made in the bylaws to stop board members from being hoodwinked, and causing our whole community great financial harm in the process.