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Issue: Recently, we got a request from one of our customers to reject outbound emails for a specific user. We initially thought whether it is possible to block outbound emails for a single user. However, G Suite is very powerful and it has some interesting features. We achieved our target by using G Suite content compliance as below.  Solution: Step 1: From admin console go to Apps -> G Suite -> Gmail -> Advanced Settings. Step 2: Under Basic Settings go to Content Compliance and click on Configure. Step 3: Add a rule as per below screenshots to block outbound emails. Step 4: Save the configuration and check email sending/receiving status.

It is a mandatory task to update DNS records for successful email transaction. We often publish G Suite DNS records in wrong way. Here I describe some of the DNS records (MX record, CNAME record and TXT record) for G Suite email. MX Record:  It's a mandatory record for inbound email communication. Name/Host/Alias TTL Record Type Priority Value @ or leave blank 3600 MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM @ or leave blank 3600 MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM @ or leave blank 3600 MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM @ or leave blank 3600 MX 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM @ or leave blank 3600 MX 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM CNAME record:  This record is required if you want to access the webmail using our own domain name. In that case, it is mail.domain.com.  Type Name or Host Value or Address ...