SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at blocking the so-called e-mail faking. Essentially, it indicates sending some message from one e-mail address and making it seem to be sent from another one with the purpose to scam in some manner the person receiving it. If the SPF protection is running for a domain, a record that includes all mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses under the domain is created. The record is saved on all of the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic internationally, so they all can identify if an e-mail message comes from a valid server or not. The check is conducted at the first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, and in the second one it is removed and it never gets to the intended recipient. Applying SPF records for your domains will stop any unauthorized people from making use of your emails for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Website Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for any domain name hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with only a couple of clicks. The option can be found in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to pick one of your domain names from the drop-down list and to type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers which will be authorized to send email messages from your email addresses. As an added option you may also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only when it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party provider. This feature gives you the best degree of safety, but it's not applicable when only your site is on our servers while your emails for the domain name are taken care of elsewhere. Regardless, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses secure from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as a part of the standard collection of services that you'll receive using this type of web hosting. Activating the protection involves just a few easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even when you haven't employed this type of feature before, you will not have any problems. Through a very easy-to-navigate interface, you'll just have to insert the details of the mail server which will be permitted to send out messages from your addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the recently made record propagates, nobody will be able to counterfeit any e-mail for that particular domain and send out email messages from a server different from the one you have typed in. This does not specifically have to be our mail server, however if we handle your e-mails, you'll be able to allow an extra level of protection by selecting an option that e-mails can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain uses our MX records. Our tech support crew can assist you 24/7 in case you have any kind of questions about this service.