SPF, which means Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail security system, that is used to confirm if an e-mail message is sent by an official server. Employing SPF protection for a given domain will stop the faking of email addresses generated with the domain. In layman's terms: enabling this feature for a domain name makes a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that contains the IP addresses of the servers which are allowed to send e-mails from mailboxes under the domain. When this record propagates globally, it will exist on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. When a new e-mail message is sent, the initial DNS server it goes through tests whether it originates from an official server. In the event it does, it's forwarded to the destination address, but if it doesn't originate from a server listed in the SPF record for the domain, it is rejected. In this way nobody will be able to mask an e-mail address then make it appear as if you are e-mailing spam. This technique is also identified as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Website Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for each domain name hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a few clicks. The option is available in the Emails section of our hi-tech Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to choose one of your domains from the drop-down menu and then type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be certified to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you may also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This feature will provide you with the highest degree of security, but it's not applicable in case only your website is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain name are taken care of somewhere else. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses risk-free from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to protect your emails by enabling the SPF protection service for any domain in the account with only a couple of mouse-clicks. This is done in the Emails section of our Hepsia Control Panel which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts and even when you have no previous practical experience with these issues, you will not have any kind of trouble to activate the protection. The only things that you will need to do is to pick a domain name from a drop-down menu and after that type the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. As soon as the updated record propagates, messages from your e-mail addresses will be sent around the world only if they are sent from that particular server. When your e-mail addresses are managed by us and not by some third-party supplier, you will also be able to take advantage of an option for e-mail messages to be sent only if the domain name has our MX records and the latter would be the safest option. When you have any questions regarding thisfunction, you can contact our technical support crew 24/7.