Google Workspace Gmail - Allow Gmail, but only internally.

[TwistedHelixis]

This is for a primary school.

We currently have the Gmail app disabled for all pupils. I have just been asked if it is possible to enable Gmail, but block all external sending / receiving. I believe they want to show the pupils how Email works as part of their curriculum.

 

I thought there would be a load of articles / posts online, but for some reason I am coming up with very limited results, so thought I would ask on Edugeek.

 

Is this possible?

[icechris]

If you have a OU for pupils, you can goto the Admin Console > Apps > Gmail and choose Compliance. There is an option in there for Restrict Delivery. We've set up mail lists for email addresses they are allowed (we whitelisted google classroom emails so they would get those), there is a message you can have for rejection notices and then an option for bypassing for internal messages.

 

The sender externally gets the message from the rejection noticed page with a message that it is blocked. The sender doesn't get a message though, the email is just dropped before it is sent. I've not been able to get it to show a message to the sender.

Edited September 12, 2024 by icechris