SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a validation system that aims at protecting against the so-called e-mail faking. Essentially, this means sending a message from one email address and making it appear to be sent from another one with the purpose to scam in some way the individual receiving it. In the event that the SPF protection is active for a domain, a record which has all the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses within the domain is created. The record is placed on all DNS servers that route the Internet traffic globally, therefore they all can recognize whether an e-mail message comes from an authentic server or not. The verification is conducted at the very first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, but in the second one it is removed and it never gets to the supposed recipient. Using SPF records for your domain names will stop any unwanted people from making use of your emails for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for each domain name hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a couple of mouse-clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our hi-tech Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to use it is to pick one of your domain names from the drop-down menu and then type in the hostnames as well as the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers that will be certified to send email messages from your emails. As an additional option you can even restrict the messages to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, i.e. if our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party provider. This option will give you the highest standard of safety, but it's not applicable when only your website is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain name are handled elsewhere. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to take advantage of the SPF protection feature as part of the regular group of services that you will have with this type of web hosting. Activating the protection will require just several easy steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, therefore even when you've never used this type of feature before, you will not have any troubles. Through a very easy-to-use interface, you'll simply have to insert the details of the mail server that will be authorized to send messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the newly created record propagates, no one will be able to counterfeit any e-mail address for that particular domain name and send out e-mail messages from a server different from the one you've entered. This does not specifically have to be our mail server, still when we handle your emails, you'll be able to allow an additional level of security by choosing an option that emails can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only if the domain uses our MX records. Our technical support crew will be able to help you 24/7 if you have any questions regarding this service.