SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at stopping the so-called e-mail faking. Essentially, this indicates sending a message from one email and making it appear to be sent from another one with the purpose to scam in some manner the person opening it. When the SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a record which contains all mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses part of the domain is generated. The record is placed on all the DNS servers that route the web traffic around the world, so that they all will identify if an email message comes from a valid server or not. The verification is done at the first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, whereas in the second it is discarded and it never gets to its intended recipient. Applying SPF records for your domains will stop any unwanted people from making use of your emails for harmful objectives.

SPF Protection in Website Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for every domain name hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud platform with just a few clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our outstanding Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to choose one of your domain names from the drop-down list and type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers that will be authorized to send email messages from your emails. As an added option you can even restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only when it has our MX records, in other words when our servers handle the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution provides you with the best level of safety, but it is not applicable in case only your site is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain name are taken care of in another place. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your emails protected from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, you are able to secure your email addresses by activating the SPF security service for every domain name hosted in the account with just a couple of clicks. This is done from the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous experience with these kinds of matters, you will not have any problems to enable the security. The only things that you'll have to do will be to find a domain name from a drop-down menu then type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. As soon as the updated record propagates, messages from your emails will be mailed globally only if they are sent from that server. If your emails are taken care of by us and not by a third-party provider, you will also be able to take advantage of an option for email messages to be sent only when the domain contains our MX records and the latter is the safest option. When you have any questions regarding thisfunction, you will be able to contact our technical support team 24/7.