SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a verification system that aims at protecting against the so-called e-mail forging. Essentially, this indicates sending a message from one e-mail address and making it look like it’s sent from a different one with the purpose to scam in some way the individual receiving it. If the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record that contains all of the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses in the domain is generated. The record is placed on all the DNS servers that direct the web traffic internationally, therefore they all will recognize if an e-mail message comes from a legitimate server or not. The check is conducted at the very first server where the email goes through and in the first case the e-mail message is forwarded, and in the second one it is discarded and it never gets to its intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domain names will prevent all unauthorized people from making use of your emails for malicious objectives.
SPF Protection in Shared Hosting
SPF protection can be activated for each domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a few clicks. The function is available in the Emails section of our amazing Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to activate it is to choose one of your domains from the drop-down list and to type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers that will be authorized to send emails from your emails. As an added option you may also restrict the messages to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers manage the e-mail addresses for it, not a third-party provider. This option offers you the highest level of security, but it's not applicable if only your site is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain name are taken care of in a different place. Either way, the SPF protection service will keep your emails protected from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
The SPF protection function is provided with all of the semi-dedicated plans, so in case you host your domains in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you're able to use the service with ease for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, has a rather user-friendly interface, which means that you don't have to be tech-savvy to secure your e-mail addresses. You will only need to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you'd like to be authorized to send emails from your addresses and right after that the new record will be activated for the domain that you've chosen. As an additional option, we'll also give you the ability to control your outgoing e-mail messages and secure your mailboxes even further by allowing e-mail messages to be sent only when the domain involved features our MX records i.e. the emails for the domain name have to be taken care of on our end and not by another supplier. In this way you'll have even better control and there will not be any chance for someone to fake your e-mails for malicious objectives.