Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, which is intended to prevent the so-called e-mail spoofing where an email message is sent from one e-mail address, but to seem as being sent from another, ordinarily with the purpose to scam the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain, an exclusive record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all of the DNS servers worldwide receive it. The record features all of the mail servers that are allowed to send valid messages from an email address within the domain. When a message is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to verifies the SPF record and in case the sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the targeted receiver. When, however, the sending server doesn't exist in the SPF record for the given domain, the e-mail message will not be forwarded and it will be removed. When you employ this solution, it will stop third parties from sending spam emails which appear to have been sent by you.

SPF Protection in Shared Website Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for every domain name hosted in a shared website hosting account on our cloud platform with no more than a few clicks. The function can be found in the Emails section of our amazing Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to enable it is to pick 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 email servers that will be authorized to send messages from your emails. As an additional option you can also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain only when it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the emails for it, not a third-party provider. This option provides you with the highest degree of safety, but it is not applicable when only your site is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain name are handled in a different place. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses risk-free from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, you can secure your email addresses by enabling the SPF security service for any domain in your account with only a few clicks. You can do this through the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you have no previous practical experience with these kinds of things, you won't have any kind of difficulties to enable the protection. All that you'll need to do is to choose a domain from a drop-down list 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 mailed worldwide only if they were sent from that specific server. If your e-mail addresses are taken care of by our company and not by a third-party supplier, you will also be able to benefit from an option for emails to be mailed only if the domain has our MX records and the aforementioned is the most secure option. Should you have any kind of questions about thisfunction, you will be able to get in touch with our support team 24/7.