SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a validation system that aims at preventing the so-called email faking. Essentially, this means sending some message from one email address and making it look like it’s sent from another with the objective to scam in some way the individual receiving it. When the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record which has all mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses under the domain is generated. The record is saved on all of the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic across the globe, so that they all will recognize whether an e-mail message originates from a trustworthy server or not. The verification is performed at the very first server where the email goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, while in the second it is discarded and it never gets to the intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domain names will stop all unwanted people from using your email addresses for harmful purposes.

SPF Protection in Shared Website Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for each domain hosted in a shared website hosting account on our cloud platform with just a few mouse-clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our amazing Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to pick one of your domains from the drop-down list and then enter the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers that will be approved to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you may also restrict the messages to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not a third-party supplier. This option will provide you with the top level of protection, but it is not applicable when only your site is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain name are handled in another place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your emails risk-free from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are able to secure your email addresses by enabling the SPF protection service for every domain name hosted in the account with only a couple of mouse-clicks. This is done from the Emails section of our Hepsia Control Panel which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous practical experience with these kinds of things, you won't have any problems to activate the security. Everything that you will have to do is to pick a domain name from a drop-down list and after that type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. As soon as the updated record propagates, messages from your email addresses will be delivered globally only if they were sent from that server. In case your e-mail addresses are managed by our company and not by some third-party provider, you will also be able to activate an option for email messages to be sent only when the domain name includes our MX records and the latter is the safest option. Should you have any kind of questions about thisfeature, you can contact our tech support team 24/7.