SPF, which is short for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail safety system, that is used to verify whether an e-mail message is sent by an official server. Using SPF protection for a domain will stop the faking of emails made with the domain. In simple words: enabling this attribute for a domain name creates a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that contains the IP of the servers which are allowed to send e-mail messages from mail boxes using the domain. As soon as this record propagates globally, it will exist on all of the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. When a new email message is sent, the first DNS server it goes through tests whether it comes from an approved server. If it does, it's sent to the destination address, yet when it doesn't come from a server part of the SPF record for the particular domain, it's rejected. Thus nobody can mask an email address to make it look as if you are sending spam messages. This approach is also known as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Web Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for every domain hosted in a shared web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a few mouse-clicks. The function is accessible in the Emails section of our cutting-edge Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down list and enter the hostnames as well as the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be authorized to send emails from your email addresses. As an added option you may also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, in other words if our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party supplier. This option provides you with the highest standard of safety, but it's not applicable when only your web site is on our servers while the emails for the domain are taken care of in another place. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses secure from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, that comes as standard with our semi-dedicated hosting services, will provide you with a really user-friendly interface to activate the SPF protection service for each domain that you host within your new account. A couple of clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia are enough for that then you'll only have to type in the hostname and the IP address of the mail server that will be allowed to send messages from your e-mails. In case the e-mails are managed by us and not by another provider, you'll be able to boost the security level even more and activate an option for all of the outgoing e-mail messages to be sent only if your domains use our MX records. This option gives you better control and it'll eliminate any chance of somebody counterfeiting your e-mail addresses with the objective of spamming and / or scamming people. It's not applicable in case only your web site is hosted on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, while your e-mail addresses are handled by some other provider. If you aren't sure what options to choose, our tech support staff will help you 24/7.