Last updated January 25, 2021

Email repositories must only allow Google's Workspace AND unverified forwarding IP address ranges in your firewall rules and/or mail server configurations as they originate the SMTP connections to your host(s).

Google maintains the updated list of ranges at https://support.google.com/a/answer/60764, which we have replicated below

Google Workspace IP address ranges

To get the IP addresses of Google Workspace mail servers:

Use DNS lookup commands (nslookup, dig, host) to retrieve the SPF records for the domain _spf.google.com:

nslookup -q=TXT _spf.google.com 8.8.8.8

The results contain the current ranges of Google mail sending servers.

IP address ranges for unverified forwarding

IPv4IPv6

108.177.16.0/23

142.250.220.0/23

2600:1901:101::0/48

Alternate configuration 

If you use hostnames instead of IP addresses in your firewall routing settings, use this hostname mask when routing unauthenticated messages:

*.unverified-forwarding.1e100.net

To identify untrusted forwarding servers, use this hostname mask in your firewall settings. Use the wildcard (*) for subdomains. Subdomains can include multiple, nested subdomains.


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