SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail safety system, that is is intended to confirm if an email message is sent by an authorized server. Employing SPF protection for a given domain name will stop the faking of emails made with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain creates a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP addresses of the servers that are allowed to send emails from mail boxes under the domain. As soon as this record propagates globally, it will exist on all of the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. When a new e-mail message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses checks if it originates from an official server. When it does, it's forwarded to the destination address, but if it does not originate from a server indexed in the SPF record for the particular domain, it's rejected. Thus nobody will mask an email address and make it appear as if you are distributing spam messages. This technique is also termed email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can activate the SPF protection option for your domain names with only a couple of clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all our cloud hosting plans. This is done from the section bearing the same name and you're able to allow the protection for each and every domain name on our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. Using a really handy interface, all you need to submit is the hostname of the mail server which will be authorized to send out messages from your e-mail addresses and its IPv4 or IPv6 address. Last, but not least, you're able to include several servers as well, if needed. When your emails are taken care of on our end, you may also use an even more secure option by putting a restriction that email messages can be sent only if your domains have our MX records. This option cannot be used if your website is hosted with us, but the emails are with some third-party provider. In either case, the SPF protection solution will strongly enhance your web protection and stop others from counterfeiting your e-mail addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all our semi-dedicated servers, provides you with an exceptionally easy-to-use interface to enable the SPF security service for every domain that you host within your new account. Several clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia are enough for that then you'll only have to enter the hostname and the IP address of the mail server that will be allowed to send messages from your email addresses. When the email messages are handled by us and not by some other provider, you will be able to increase the protection level even further and benefit from an option for all of the outgoing e-mails to be sent only if your domain names include our MX records. This option gives you better control and it will eliminate any possibility of anyone faking your email addresses with the objective of spamming and / or scamming people. It's not applicable when just your web site is hosted on our modern cloud website hosting platform, while your email addresses are handled by a different service provider. If you aren't sure what options to choose, our tech support team will help you 24/7.