Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, that is employed to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an email message can be sent from one e-mail, but to seem as being sent from another one, frequently with the purpose to scam the recipient someway. When SPF protection is enabled for a domain, a special record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally receive it. The record includes all of the email servers that are allowed to send legitimate messages from an e-mail address part of the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the first DNS server it encounters checks the SPF record and in case the sending server is permitted, the message is sent to the targeted destination. When, however, the sending server is not included in the SPF record for the given domain, the message will not be sent and it will be discarded. Whenever you use this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam e-mails that look as if they have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Shared Web Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for each domain hosted in a shared web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with only a couple of mouse-clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to enable it is to pick one of your domain names from a drop-down list and then type in the hostnames as well as the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers that will be permitted to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you can also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This solution provides you with the best degree of protection, but it's not applicable in case only your site is on our servers while your emails for the domain name are taken care of somewhere else. Regardless, the SPF protection service will keep your emails safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When 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 hosted in your account with just a few mouse-clicks. You can do this through the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts and even in case you have no previous experience with such matters, you won't have any kind of problems to enable the protection. All that you will need to do is to pick a domain name from a drop-down menu and after that type the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. The moment the new record propagates, messages from your email addresses will be sent around the world only if they're sent from that particular server. In case your emails are taken care of by our company and not by a third-party provider, you will also be able to use an option for email messages to be mailed only if the domain features our MX records and the aforementioned is the most secure option. In case you have any questions regarding thisfunction, you can get in touch with our tech support crew 24/7.