SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a validation system that is aimed at protecting against the so-called email faking. Essentially, it indicates sending a message from one e-mail and making it look like it’s sent from another one with the objective to scam in some manner the person getting it. In case the SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a record which includes all mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses in the domain is made. The record is kept on all of the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic across the globe, thus they all will recognize if an email message comes from a valid server or not. The verification is conducted at the very first server where the email goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, and in the second it's discarded and it never reaches the intended recipient. Using SPF records for your domains will prevent all unauthorized people from using your emails for malicious objectives.

SPF Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for any domain name hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a few mouse-clicks. The feature can be found in the Emails section of our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate it is to choose one of your domains from the drop-down list and to type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers which will be authorized to send messages from your email addresses. As an added option you can even restrict the email messages to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, in other words when our servers handle the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution gives you the highest level of safety, but it is not applicable in case only your website is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain are taken care of somewhere else. Regardless, our SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to use the SPF protection feature as part of the conventional collection of services that you'll get using this type of website hosting. Activating the protection will involve just several simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel, therefore even in case you haven't used this kind of feature before, you will not have any type of problems. Through an exceptionally intuitive interface, you will only need to enter the details of the mail server that will be authorized to send out messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the newly generated record propagates, no one will be able to fake any email for that particular domain and send out e-mail messages from a server different from the one you have entered. This doesn't specifically have to be our mail server, however in case we manage your email messages, you'll be able to allow an extra level of protection by selecting an option that emails can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain employs our MX records. Our tech support staff will be able to help you 24/7 if you have any questions regarding this service.