These steps will exclude users from routing through the Black Pearl Mail platform who are members of a specified group.
To carry out the following steps, you will require a Google Workspace account with global administrator permissions.
STEP 1 – Create a Group
1) Go to your Gmail Administrator settings:
http://admin.google.com/
2) From the left-hand menu, select
Directory > Groups.
3) Click
Create group.
4) Enter
Black Pearl Mail as the name, and
blackpearlmail as the group email and click
Next.
5) Click on the drop-down menu next to
Who can join the group and select
Only invited users. Click
Create group.
6) Click
Add members to Black Pearl Mail.
7) Click
Add members.
8) This is the part where we add all the members that we don not want to route through Black Pearl Mail. Enter the email address of the user in the search field and then select it from the list.
9) Once you have added all the members, click
Add to group.
STEP 2 – Update Compliance Settings
1) From the left-hand menu, select
Apps > Google Workspace > Gmail.
2) Select
Content Compliance.
3) Scroll down to the Black Pearl Mail content compliance rule and click
edit.
9) Scroll right down to the bottom of the rule and select
Show options.
10) Scroll down to
Envelope filter and tick the box next to
Only affect specific envelope senders.
11) Click
Select groups.
12) Select the
Black Pearl Mail group we created in the previous steps.
13) Click on the
cross in the top left-hand corner.
14) Click
Save.
That completes the settings needed in Google Workspace. All members of the Black Pearl Mail group are now configured to route with Black Pearl Mail. These settings can take up to an hour to complete.
Next, you'll want to create signature templates, add user details, and lastly turn on signatures for your users. We have great Getting Started articles that you can reference below.