Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, that is used to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message can be sent from one e-mail, but to appear as being sent from a different one, ordinarily with the objective to fraud the recipient in some way. When SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a special record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all the DNS servers worldwide get it. The record includes all the e-mail servers that are allowed to send authentic messages from an email address within the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the first DNS server it goes to verifies the SPF record and in case its sending server is permitted, the message is sent to the target destination. If, however, the sending server is not included in the SPF record for the given domain, the e-mail message won't be forwarded and it'll be discarded. In case you use this service, it will stop third parties from sending spam e-mails that appear to have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to activate the SPF protection service for your domain names with just a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our cloud hosting plans. This carried out through the section with the same name and you can set up the protection for each domain part of our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. Using a really time and effort saving interface, all you need to enter is the hostname of the mail server that will be accredited to send out messages from your emails and its IPv4 or IPv6 address. Last, but not least, you are able to add several servers too, when needed. If your e-mails are taken care of by us, you can also take advantage of an even more risk-free option by setting a restriction that messages can be sent only if your domain names include our MX records. This option can't be applied in case your web site is here, and the email addresses are with a third-party service provider. Either way, the SPF protection solution will significantly improve your web safety and stop others from forging your email addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection function is provided with all of the semi-dedicated hosting plans, so if you host your domain names in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you'll be able to use the service without difficulty for all your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a really user-friendly interface, so you don't have to be tech-savvy in order to protected your e-mails. You'll only have to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you'd like to be certified to send out emails from your addresses and shortly after that the updated record will be active for the domain name that you have chosen. As an additional option, we'll also give you the ability to control the outgoing emails and secure your mailboxes further by permitting e-mail messages to be sent only when the domain involved has our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain need to be taken care of on our end and not by some other supplier. By doing this you will have even superior control and there won't be any chance for anyone to forge your e-mails for malicious intentions.