Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, that is intended to stop the so-called e-mail spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one address, but to seem as being sent from another one, ordinarily with the objective to fraud the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is activated for a domain, a special record is made for it in the Domain Name System and all the DNS servers globally have it. The record contains all e-mail servers that are permitted to send authentic messages from an address part of the domain. When a message is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters verifies the SPF record and when its sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the target destination. In case, however, the sending server is not included in the SPF record for the given domain, the email message won't be submitted and it will be removed. In case you use this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam emails which look as if they have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for every domain name hosted in a cloud website hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a couple of clicks. The function is accessible in the Emails section of our modern Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down menu and then type in the hostnames as well as the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be approved to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you can even restrict the messages to be sent from your domain name only when it has our MX records, i.e. when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This option offers you the top standard of protection, but it's 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. Either way, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you will be able to use the SPF protection feature as part of the regular set of services that you'll receive using this kind of hosting. Enabling the protection will require only a couple of simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even in the event that you have never used this type of function before, you will not have any kind of troubles. Using a very easy-to-navigate interface, you'll only have to type in the info of the mail server which will be permitted to send messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the newly created record propagates, nobody will be able to forge any e-mail for that particular domain and send e-mails from a server different from the one you have entered. This doesn't specifically have to be our mail server, yet in case we handle your emails, you can activate an extra level of protection by picking an option that e-mail messages can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only in case the domain uses our MX records. Our technical support team can assist you 24/7 in case you have any kind of questions related to this service.