SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a validation system that aims at preventing the so-called email forging. Basically, this indicates sending a message from one email address and making it seem to be sent from another with the objective to scam in some manner the person opening it. When the SPF protection is running for a domain, a record which has all of the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses part of the domain is made. The record is kept on all of the DNS servers that route the web traffic globally, so they all will identify whether an email message originates from a legitimate server or not. The check is performed at the first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, but in the second it's discarded and it never gets to its intended recipient. Using SPF records for your domains will stop all unwanted people from making use of your emails for harmful objectives.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for any domain hosted in a cloud hosting account on our cloud platform with only a couple of clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down list and to type in the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be permitted to send emails from your email addresses. As an additional option you can also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This feature will give you the top standard of security, but it's not applicable in case only your web site is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain are managed in another place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses protected from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you'll be able to employ the SPF protection feature as part of the conventional group of services that you will receive using this kind of web hosting. Enabling the protection will involve only a few simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel, therefore even in case you've never used this type of feature before, you won't have any kind of troubles. Using a very easy-to-navigate interface, you'll just need to input the details of the mail server which will be permitted to send out messages from your email 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 e-mail address for that particular domain and send out e-mail messages from a server other than the one you have typed in. This does not necessarily have to be our mail server, yet when we handle your email messages, you'll be able to activate one more level of security by choosing an option that e-mails can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only if 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 related to this service.