Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is designed to stop the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one e-mail address, but to look as being sent from another, typically with the objective to fraud the recipient someway. If SPF protection is activated for a domain, a specific record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally have it. The record features all email servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an email address under the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to checks the SPF record and when the sending server is authorized, the message is forwarded to the targeted receiver. In case, however, the sending server doesn't exist in the SPF record for the given domain, the email message will not be sent and it'll be removed. If you use this service, it will prevent third parties from sending spam which appear to have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for each domain name hosted in a hosting account on our cloud platform with just a couple of mouse-clicks. The option is available in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to use it is to pick one of your domain names from the drop-down menu and enter the hostnames plus the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be approved to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you may also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only when it has our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the e-mail addresses for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution will provide you with the highest degree of safety, but it is not applicable if only your web site is on our servers while your email addresses for the domain are handled elsewhere. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses safe from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you can secure your email addresses by enabling the SPF protection service for any domain name in the account with only a few clicks. This can be done through the Emails section of our Hepsia Control Panel which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous experience with these issues, you will not have any kind of troubles to enable the protection. The only things that you will have to do will be to pick a domain name from a drop-down list and then type the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. As soon as the new record propagates, messages from your e-mail addresses will be sent globally only if they were sent from that specific server. If your email addresses are managed by us and not by a third-party provider, you will also be able to use an option for emails to be mailed only if the domain includes our MX records and this is the safest option. If you have any kind of questions regarding thisfunction, you can get in touch with our tech support crew 24/7.