SPF, which means Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail security system, that is designed to validate if an email message was sent by an authorized server. Employing SPF protection for a domain name will stop the faking of emails generated with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain name generates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP of the servers which are allowed to send email messages from mailboxes using the domain. The moment this record propagates globally, it exists on all DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Whenever some email message is sent, the initial DNS server it goes through verifies if it comes from an authorized server. In the event it does, it is forwarded to the destination address, however if it does not come from a server listed in the SPF record for the particular domain, it is rejected. Thus nobody will mask an e-mail address then make it appear as if you're sending spam. This method is also known as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Website Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for any domain hosted in a shared website hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with only a couple of clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our modern Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to pick one of your domains from the drop-down menu and then enter the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers which will be approved to send emails from your emails. As an added option you can also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only if it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers handle the email addresses for it, not a third-party provider. This solution gives you the highest level of protection, but it is not applicable in case only your web site is on our servers while your emails for the domain name are managed in a different place. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection attribute is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers, so when you host your domain names in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you will be able to use the service effortlessly for all of your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy to use interface, therefore you do not need to be tech-savvy to protected your email addresses. You will simply have to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you'd like to be authorized to send out e-mails from your addresses and shortly after that the new record will be activated for the domain that you've picked. As an extra option, we also give you the ability to limit the outgoing email messages and secure your mailboxes further by allowing e-mail messages to be sent only when the domain name in question has our MX records i.e. the email messages for the domain should be handled by us and not by some other company. By doing this you will have even superior control and there will not be any chances for someone to forge your e-mails for malicious objectives.