Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is used to stop the so-called email spoofing where an email message is sent from one email address, but to seem as being sent from a different, ordinarily with the objective to fraud the recipient in some way. When SPF protection is enabled for a domain, an exclusive record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally get it. The record features all the e-mail servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an e-mail address part of the domain. When an email is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters verifies the SPF record and when the sending server is authorized, the message is sent to the targeted receiver. If, however, the sending server is not present in the SPF record for the given domain, the email message won't be forwarded and it will be discarded. In the event that you employ this service, it will prevent third parties from sending spam emails which appear to have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

When you host your domains in a shared hosting account with us and we manage the e-mails for them, you'll be able to activate SPF protection for all of them with several clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is accessible in its own section where you're able to view which domain names are already protected. For those which aren't, you can enable the SPF protection service and manage a lot of things at the same time - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your mailboxes, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, as well as to set a rule that emails can be sent only if your domains include our MX records. The aforementioned solution is the most secure one, and it can be used in the event that we manage the emails for your domain names and do not use another email supplier. The new records will propagate within 24 hours and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in a message by using your addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection feature is featured with all the semi-dedicated servers, so if you host your domain names in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you are able to use the service effortlessly for any of your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a rather user-friendly interface, therefore you will not have to be tech-savvy to secure your e-mails. You will only have to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you would like to be allowed to send out e-mails from your addresses and shortly after that the updated record will be activated for the domain name that you have selected. As an additional option, we'll also give you the ability to restrict the outgoing emails and secure your mailboxes further by permitting emails to be sent only when the domain in question has our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain should be handled here and not by another company. By doing so you will have even superior control and there will not be any chances for any person to forge your e-mails for malicious intentions.