SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that aims at blocking the so-called email counterfeiting. Basically, this means sending a message from one email and making it seem to be sent from another with the objective to scam in some way the individual receiving it. When the SPF protection is activated for a domain, a record which has all mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses within the domain is generated. The record is saved on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic internationally, therefore they all will identify if an email message originates from a legitimate server or not. The verification is conducted at the very first server where the email goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, while in the second it is discarded and it never reaches the intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domains will prevent any unauthorized people from using your email addresses for harmful purposes.
SPF Protection in Shared Hosting
SPF protection can be enabled for every domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform with no more than a few mouse-clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our state-of-the-art Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to choose one of your domains from the drop-down menu and type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers that will be approved to send messages from your emails. As an additional option you can even restrict the emails to be sent from your domain name only when it includes our MX records, in other words if our servers handle the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party provider. This feature offers you the top degree of security, but it is not applicable if only your website is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain name are taken care of in a different place. Regardless, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you'll be able to take advantage of the SPF protection feature as a part of the regular set of services that you will have using this kind of hosting. Enabling the protection requires only a few simple steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, so even in case you haven't used this kind of feature before, you will not have any type of issues. Employing a very time and effort saving interface, you'll just have to type in the info of the mail server that will be authorized to send out messages from your addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). The moment the recently created record propagates, no one will be able to forge any e-mail for that particular domain name and send e-mail messages from a server other than the one you have entered. This doesn't specifically have to be our mail server, still if we take care of your e-mails, you are able to activate an additional level of security by picking an option that e-mails can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only if the domain uses our MX records. Our technical support team will be able to help you 24/7 if you have any questions about this service.