SPF, which means Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail protection system, which is employed to confirm whether an e-mail message is sent by a certified server. Using SPF protection for a domain name will stop the forging of emails made with the domain. In simple words: enabling this function for a domain creates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP addresses of the servers which are allowed to send emails from mailboxes using the domain. As soon as this record propagates globally, it will exist on all of the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. Whenever some e-mail message is sent, the initial DNS server it goes through checks if it comes from an authorized server. If it does, it is forwarded to the destination address, but when it doesn't originate from a server indexed in the SPF record for the domain, it's discarded. In this way nobody will be able to mask an email address and make it look as if you are distributing spam messages. This approach is also termed email spoofing.
SPF Protection in Shared Hosting
SPF protection can be activated for every domain name hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform with only a few clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down list and to type in the hostnames as well as the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers that will be permitted to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you can even restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party supplier. This option will give you the top degree of security, but it's not applicable if only your website is on our servers while your email addresses for the domain are handled in another place. Regardless, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you will be able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as a part of the regular set of services that you will have using this type of web hosting. Enabling the protection requires just a couple of simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel, so even in the event that you have never used such a feature before, you will not have any type of problems. Employing a really time and effort saving interface, you will only need to insert the info of the mail server that will be permitted to send out messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the recently created record propagates, no one will be able to forge any email for that particular domain name and send out messages from a server different from the one you've entered. This doesn't necessarily have to be our mail server, still if we take care of your email messages, you can enable an additional level of protection by picking an option that e-mail messages can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only if the domain employs our MX records. Our technical support staff can help you 24/7 in case you have any questions regarding this service.