SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail protection system, which is is intended to validate if an e-mail message is sent by an official server. Employing SPF protection for a domain will stop the counterfeiting of email addresses created with the domain. In layman's terms: enabling this function for a domain generates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which includes the IP addresses of the servers that are permitted to send emails from mail boxes under the domain. When this record propagates globally, it will exist on all of the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Whenever some email message is sent, the first DNS server it goes through tests whether it originates from an authorized server. In the event it does, it's sent to the destination address, however if it does not originate from a server part of the SPF record for the particular domain, it is rejected. In this way nobody can mask an e-mail address then make it appear as if you are e-mailing spam. This method is also called email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Web Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for each domain hosted in a web hosting account on our cloud platform with no more than a couple of clicks. The function is accessible in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate it is to select one of your domain names from the drop-down menu and type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers that will be approved to send emails from your email addresses. As an additional option you can even restrict the messages to be sent from your domain name only if it includes our MX records, i.e. if our servers handle the email addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This option provides you with the highest level of protection, but it is not applicable if only your website is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain are handled somewhere else. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are able to secure your emails by enabling the SPF security service for every domain name hosted in your account with just a couple of mouse-clicks. This is done in the Emails section of our Hepsia Control Panel that comes with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous practical experience with such matters, you won't have any kind of trouble to activate the security. The only things that you will have to do will be to pick a domain from a drop-down list and after that type the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. The moment the new record propagates, messages from your email addresses will be delivered globally only if they are sent from that server. When your emails are taken care of by us and not by a third-party supplier, you will also be able to activate an option for emails to be mailed only when the domain name has our MX records and this is the safest option. Should you have any kind of questions regarding thisfunction, you will be able to get in touch with our technical support crew 24/7.