SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a verification system that aims at stopping the so-called email faking. In simple terms, this indicates sending some message from one e-mail address and making it look like it’s sent from a different one with the objective to scam in some manner the individual opening it. If the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record which has all the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses in the domain is made. The record is saved on all of the DNS servers that direct the web traffic globally, thus they all can recognize if an email message comes from an authentic server or not. The verification is performed at the very first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, whereas in the second one it's removed and it never reaches its intended recipient. Using SPF records for your domain names will stop any unwanted people from using your email addresses for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for any domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform with no more than a few mouse-clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our outstanding Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to activate it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down list and enter the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers that will be approved to send messages from your emails. As an added option you may also restrict the messages to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This feature will provide you with the top level of safety, but it's not applicable if only your site is on our servers while your email addresses for the domain are managed in a different place. Either way, our SPF protection service will keep your emails protected from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you can employ the SPF protection feature as part of the regular set of services that you will have using this type of web hosting. Enabling the protection requires just a few easy steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel, so even if you haven't employed this type of function before, you won't have any kind of problems. Using an exceptionally intuitive interface, you will simply have to insert the details of the mail server which will be certified to send out messages from your e-mail addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the recently made record propagates, nobody will be able to fake any email address for that particular domain name and send e-mails from a server different from the one you have typed in. This doesn't necessarily have to be our mail server, however in case we take care of your emails, you'll be able to activate an extra level of protection by choosing an option that e-mails can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain employs our MX records. Our tech support team will be able to help you 24/7 if you have any kind of questions regarding this service.