Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is used to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message can be sent from one email, but to seem as being sent from another, typically with the idea to scam the recipient someway. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, an exclusive record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally receive it. The record includes all of the mail servers that are allowed to send valid messages from an email address under the domain. When an email is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to checks the SPF record and when its sending server is authorized, 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 e-mail message will not be sent and it'll be discarded. Whenever you employ this service, it'll prevent third parties from sending spam e-mails that appear to have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for each domain name hosted in a cloud hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with only a couple of mouse-clicks. The option can be found in the Emails section of our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to use it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down menu and then type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be certified to send emails from your emails. As an additional option you can even restrict the messages to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, in other words when our servers handle the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This option will provide you with the best level of security, but it's not applicable in case only your site is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain are taken care of in a different place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses risk-free from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you can benefit from the SPF protection feature as part of the conventional collection of services that you'll get using this kind of website hosting. Starting the protection involves just a few simple steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even in case you haven't used such a function before, you will not have any type of issues. Using a really easy-to-use interface, you'll only have to type in the info of the mail server that will be permitted to send messages from your addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the recently generated record propagates, nobody will be able to counterfeit any email address for that particular domain and send emails from a server different from the one you have entered. This does not necessarily have to be our mail server, yet in case we take care of your emails, you're able to allow an extra level of security by selecting an option that emails can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in case the domain employs our MX records. Our technical support team will be able to assist you 24/7 in case you have any questions related to this service.