Create a Smart Host on G Suite

Written By Marissa Fegan (Super Administrator)

Updated at March 25th, 2021

There are two steps to creating a Smart Host with G Suite. See both sections below to properly set this up.

Step 1: Create a Smart Host

In order for outbound email from G Suite to be routed through VIPRE, we need to add an outbound gateway to G Suite and point it to VIPRE.

  1. Log into your G Suite account
  2. Select Apps > G Suite > Gmail
  3. Scroll down and select Advanced Settings
  4. In Advanced Settings, scroll down to Outbound gateway and type in your outbound gateway name (e.g. domain-com.outbound1-na.mailanyone.net )
  5. In the bottom right of the screen, select Save

These changes may take up to 1 hour to propagate to all users.

Step 2: Configure an Inbound Mail Gateway

  1. We recommend that G Suite clients also add the VIPRE IPs to the G Suite Inbound Gateway. This prevents Google from performing SPF checks on the sending domain against the VIPRE IPs. To configure an inbound mail gateway:
    1. Update your domain’s MX records to refer to the inbound mail gateway server (see Related Articles for details)
    2. Configure the inbound mail gateway server to deliver mail to the G Suite mail servers. The configuration steps differ depending on the gateway server
    3. Log in to your G Suite account
    4. Select Apps > G Suite > Gmail
    5. Scroll down and select Advanced Settings
    6. Scroll down to Inbound gateway
    7. Hover the cursor to the right of Inbound gateway
      1. To create a new inbound gateway setting, select Configure
        or
      2. To edit an existing setting, select Edit
    8. Under Gateway IPs, enter the information for each gateway
      1. Select Add
      2. Enter the following network ranges (select the appropriate tab below)


North America

Subnet Subnet Mask CIDR IP Range
208.70.128.0 255.255.248.0 /21 208.70.128.0–208.70.135.255
72.35.12.0 255.255.255.0 /24 72.35.12.0–72.35.12.255
72.35.23.0 255.255.255.0 /24 72.35.23.0–72.35.23.255

United Kingdom

Subnet Subnet Mask CIDR IP Range
192.162.216.0 255.255.252.0 /22 192.162.216.0–192.162.219.255
208.70.128.0 255.255.248.0 /21 208.70.128.0–208.70.135.255
72.35.12.0 255.255.255.0 /24 72.35.12.0–72.35.12.255
72.35.23.0 255.255.255.0 /24 72.35.23.0–72.35.23.255

Denmark

Subnet Subnet Mask CIDR IP Range
185.38.180.0 255.255.252.0 /22 185.38.180.0–185.38.183.255
2a01:77c0:1180:: ffff:ffff:fffc:: /46 2a01:77c0:1180::–2a01:77c0:1183:ffff:ffff:ffff: ffff:ffff
89.104.206.0 255.255.254.0 /23 89.104.206.0–89.104.207.255
2a01:77c0:0006:: ffff:ffff:fffe:: /47 2a01:77c0:0006::–2a01:77c0:0007:ffff:ffff:ffff: ffff:ffff
192.162.216.0 255.255.252.0 /22 192.162.216.0–192.162.219.255

Sweden

Subnet Subnet Mask CIDR IP Range
185.38.180.0 255.255.252.0 /22 185.38.180.0–185.38.183.255
2a01:77c0:1180:: ffff:ffff:fffc:: /46 2a01:77c0:1180::–2a01:77c0:1183:ffff:ffff:ffff: ffff:ffff
89.104.206.0 255.255.254.0 /23 89.104.206.0–89.104.207.255
2a01:77c0:0006:: ffff:ffff:fffe:: /47 2a01:77c0:0006::–2a01:77c0:0007:ffff:ffff:ffff: ffff:ffff
192.162.216.0 255.255.252.0 /22 192.162.216.0–192.162.219.255


  1. Select Save

Google provides additional detailed instructions in their article Set up an inbound mail gateway.