Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is employed to prevent the so-called e-mail spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one email address, but to seem as being sent from another one, frequently with the objective to fraud the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain, an exclusive record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers around the world get it. The record contains all of the email servers that are allowed to send valid messages from an email address under the domain. When a message is sent, the first DNS server it goes to checks the SPF record and in case its sending server is permitted, the message is sent to the targeted receiver. When, however, the sending server is not contained in the SPF record for the particular domain, the email message won't be submitted and it will be removed. Whenever you use this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam which seem to have been sent by you.

SPF Protection in Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for any domain name hosted in a hosting account on our cloud platform with no more than a couple of clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our amazing Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to enable it is to choose one of your domain names from the drop-down list and type in the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers which will be certified to send emails from your emails. As an additional option you can also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution provides you with the top degree of protection, but it's not applicable when only your site is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain are managed in another place. Either way, our SPF protection service will keep your emails protected from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are able to use the SPF protection feature as part of the regular group of services that you'll get using this type of hosting. Enabling the protection will require just a couple of easy steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even if you haven't used this kind of function before, you will not have any problems. Using an exceptionally easy to work with interface, you'll just need to insert the info of the mail server that will be authorized to send messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the recently created record propagates, nobody will be able to fake any email for that particular domain name and send out emails from a server different from the one you've typed in. This does not specifically have to be our mail server, still if we manage your emails, you can activate an extra level of protection by choosing an option that emails can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only in case the domain uses our MX records. Our technical support staff can help you 24/7 in case you have any kind of questions about this service.