SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at stopping the so-called e-mail faking. In simple terms, this indicates sending some message from one email and making it appear to be sent from another one with the idea to scam in some way the individual opening it. When the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record which has all mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses in the domain is created. The record is placed on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic globally, therefore they all can recognize whether an email message originates from a legitimate server or not. The verification is performed at the very first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, while in the second one it's removed and it never reaches the intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domain names will prevent any unauthorized people from making use of your email addresses for harmful objectives.

SPF Protection in Web Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for any domain hosted in a web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a couple of mouse-clicks. The function can be found in the Emails section of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to use it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down list and then enter the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers which will be certified to send messages from your emails. As an added option you can also restrict the email messages to be sent from your domain name only if it includes our MX records, i.e. if our servers handle the e-mail addresses for it, not a third-party supplier. This option will provide you with the best standard of protection, but it's not applicable in case only your website is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain are managed in a different place. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is provided with all of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, provides you with an extremely easy-to-use interface to activate the SPF security service for any domain that you host in your new account. Several clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia are enough for that then you will only have to type in the hostname and the IP address of the mail server that will be permitted to send out messages from your e-mail addresses. When the e-mail messages are managed by us and not by some other supplier, you're able to raise the protection level even further and benefit from an option for the outgoing e-mails to be sent only if your domains include our MX records. This option gives you more control and it will eliminate any possibility of anyone faking your e-mail addresses with the purpose of spamming or scamming people. It's not applicable if only your site is on our hi-tech cloud web hosting platform, while your e-mail addresses are handled by a different service provider. If you aren't sure what features to pick, our technical support staff will help you 24/7.