SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail security system, that is is intended to verify whether an e-mail message was sent by an authorized server. Employing SPF protection for a particular domain will stop the counterfeiting of emails made with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this feature for a domain name creates a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that contains the IP of the servers that are allowed to send e-mail messages from mailboxes using the domain. Once this record propagates globally, it exists on all of the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Any time a new e-mail message is sent, the first DNS server it uses verifies if it comes from an approved server. If it does, it's forwarded to the destination address, yet if it doesn't originate from a server indexed in the SPF record for the particular domain, it's discarded. In this way nobody will mask an email address and make it look as if you are distributing spam. This method is also known as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for any domain name hosted in a hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a few clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to enable it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down menu and to type in the hostnames as well as the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers which will be approved to send emails from your email addresses. As an added option you may also restrict the email messages to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, in other words if our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party provider. This feature offers you the best level of security, but it is not applicable in case only your web site is on our servers while your email addresses for the domain are taken care of in another place. Regardless, our SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you are able to employ the SPF protection feature as part of the regular group of services that you'll get with this type of web hosting. Enabling the protection involves just several simple steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even in case you've never used this type of function before, you will not have any type of problems. Through a very intuitive interface, you'll only have to insert the info of the mail server which will be permitted to send out messages from your e-mail addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the recently created record propagates, no one will be able to counterfeit any e-mail for that particular domain and send out messages from a server different from the one you've typed in. This does not necessarily have to be our mail server, however in case we manage your e-mails, you'll be able to activate an extra level of security by picking an option that emails can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain employs our MX records. Our technical support staff will be able to assist you 24/7 in case you have any questions regarding this service.