Handling Spam Emails with G Suite Admin Console

“Spam is basically the unwanted or unsolicited emails/messages that are being sent to mailing list or Newsgroup over the internet.”

This is the common definition we get everywhere when we search for SPAM. But have we wondered why it is unwanted? What it contains actually?

Spam is simply a mail or message that contains redundant contents. They are usually some repetitive texts

What is good in getting something which is not useful as well as not worthy. It wastes time. And the most important part is they eat up a lot of network bandwidth. Most of the organizations are concerned for their network bandwidth that they invest in some other online policies to separate the spams.

Here comes a platform which is doing the same for you - "G SUITE"

G Suite has Anti - Spam filtration.

By default, the Google Spam filters automatically scan all the incoming emails and send the detected spam messages to the Gmail spam folder.

The spam settings can be done by following the steps:-

1.Login to your Admin Console , go to Apps settings - > G Suite - > Gmail - > Advanced Settings.

2. Under the Spam part, you can see in the snapshot, there are various settings over there. So let's explore them one by one.

Email Whitelist - Under this section, you need to provide the IP addresses from where you want to receive the Emails and don’t want it to be marked as spam ever. Whitelisting is a very useful tool that can be done at various levels - Mail ID, Domain, IP address.

You can add a number of IP addresses separated by commas.

Enhanced pre-delivery message scanning - This option is available for the advanced scanning of the messages. When you enable this feature, whenever Google will find any suspicious messages, it will introduce a short delivery delay in arrival of the message for an additional scan. This helps to improve how to identify suspicious content when Gmail find that an email may be phishing.

Spam -  Under this section you can mention the content of any message which you think considered as spam. And you can also set the actions that should be done with it. You can refer to the snapshot to view what are those actions.

Blocked Addresses - In this section, you can mention the addresses/Domains from where you don’t want to receive the emails. You can also mention over there whether you should be notified about it by adding a rejection notice. Apart from this, you can also add a list of addresses/domains which you wish to be not included in the block list ( By doing so, the block setting will be bypassed whenever they come to these addresses.)

Inbound Gateway - It refers to a gateway or in technical terms, a server through which every incoming mail passes to get scanned for archival or spam. After that, the mail passes through the mail servers which then delivers the emails to the recipients.

In order to do so, we need to configure the MX records of our domain to point to the inbound mail gateway and need to configure it so that after scanning the incoming mail it passes them to the Gmail server.

From the Server level, Google also provides additional Anti-spam protection. Within the DNS panel, we put the SPF records, DKIM records and DMARC records for additional spam filtering.