Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is used to stop the so-called email spoofing where an email message is sent from one e-mail, but to seem as being sent from another, ordinarily with the purpose to fraud the recipient someway. If SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a special record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers worldwide get it. The record contains all mail servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an email address part of the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters verifies the SPF record and in case its sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the target destination. If, however, the sending server doesn't exist in the SPF record for the given domain, the email message won't be submitted and it'll be removed. When you employ this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam e-mails which look as if they have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for every domain hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a few clicks. The feature is available in the Emails section of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate it is to choose one of your domain names from the drop-down list and then enter the hostnames plus the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers that will be approved to send email messages from your emails. As an additional option you can also restrict the email messages to be sent from your domain only when it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not a third-party provider. This solution will give you the top standard of protection, but it is not applicable when only your website is on our servers while your email addresses for the domain are handled in another place. Regardless, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to protect your emails by activating the SPF security service for every domain name in the account with just a few clicks. You can do this through the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts and even in case you have no previous practical experience with such issues, you won't have any kind of troubles to enable the security. The only things that you'll need to do is to select a domain from a drop-down menu and after that type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. When the new record propagates, messages from your e-mail addresses will be delivered globally only if they're sent from that particular server. If your email addresses are taken care of by us and not by a third-party provider, you'll also be able to benefit from an option for emails to be sent only when the domain name contains our MX records and this is the most secure option. Should you have any kind of questions regarding thisfeature, you'll be able to get in touch with our tech support team 24/7.