Google admin safelisting guide

Google Admin Configuration Settings for BullPhish ID to Ensure Phishing Simulation E-mail Template Delivery

You must take several steps to deliver BullPhish ID email templates successfully. This is a direct result of Google's competency at pre-filtering, quarantining, flagging, and notifying end users of potentially malicious activities in their inboxes. This is great for your organization but can also make things tedious when trying to deploy tools designed to simulate malicious activity for your employees.

The following guide ensures you take the necessary steps to successfully deliver BullPhish ID emails based on standard Google Admin configurations. Perform the steps in the order presented. As a note, this is in addition to the safelist if you have third-party spam filters deployed in your environment.

Setting the BullPhish ID IP Address as an Inbound Gateway

Configuring an image URL proxy safelist

When your users open email messages, Gmail uses Google's secure proxy servers to serve images that might be included in these messages. It protects your users and domain against image-based security vulnerabilities and hides the IP address and User-Agent header. We have to safelist our domains to have proper E-mail Opened status tracking and information about IP address and User-Agent.

Allow listing BullPhish ID by E-mail Header

In addition to setting BullPhish ID IP Addresses as inbound gateways, end users may still experience the following warning in their inboxes:
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Revision Date
Guide audited, updated.  7/7/23
Updated BPID IP address list. 10/19/23
PR: Configuring email gateways: Edited steps 4 - 7 so required IP address is done first. Step 8 - Added Important note. 3/22/24