SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at stopping the so-called e-mail counterfeiting. In simple terms, it indicates sending some message from one email and making it seem to be sent from another one with the idea to scam in some manner the person opening it. In the event that the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record that contains all the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses within the domain is created. The record is saved on all the DNS servers that route the web traffic around the world, therefore they all will recognize if an e-mail message comes from a trustworthy server or not. The check is conducted at the first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, whereas in the second it's removed and it never reaches its intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domain names will prevent any unauthorized people from using your email addresses for harmful purposes.

SPF Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your domain names in a cloud website hosting account on our end and we manage the emails for them, you will be able to enable SPF protection for all of them with several clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in a separate section where you'll be able to see which domains are currently protected. For those that aren't, you can enable the SPF protection solution and configure a lot of things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your e-mails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, and to set a rule that messages can be sent only if your domains use our MX records. The last solution is the most secure one, but it can be used if we manage the emails for your domains and you are not using some other email service provider. The newly created records will be activated within a day and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in an e-mail with your e-mail addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you are able to employ the SPF protection feature as a part of the conventional collection of services that you will receive using this type of website hosting. Enabling the protection will involve only a few simple steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even in case you have never used such a function before, you will not have any problems. Through a really easy-to-navigate interface, you will simply need to input the information of the mail server that will be permitted to send messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the newly made record propagates, nobody will be able to forge any email for that particular domain and send out e-mails from a server different from the one you have entered. This does not necessarily have to be our mail server, yet when we handle your e-mails, you are able to activate an extra level of security by choosing an option that emails can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only if the domain uses our MX records. Our tech support crew will be able to help you 24/7 if you have any kind of questions regarding this service.