SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is an authentication system that aims at protecting against the so-called email faking. Essentially, this indicates sending some message from one email and making it appear to be sent from another with the purpose to scam in some manner the person getting it. If the SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a record that contains all mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses under the domain is created. The record is kept on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic all over the world, thus they all can recognize whether an email message comes from a trustworthy 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 one it is removed and it never reaches the supposed recipient. Applying SPF records for your domains will stop all unauthorized people from using your email addresses for malicious objectives.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for each domain name hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a few mouse-clicks. The feature is available in the Emails section of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to activate it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down list and to type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be authorized to send email messages from your email addresses. As an added option you may also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution will give you the best degree of protection, but it is not applicable in case only your website is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain name are handled in a different place. In either case, our SPF protection service will keep your emails safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all of our Linux semi-dedicated plans, will provide you with an incredibly user-friendly interface to activate the SPF protection service for every domain name that you host within your new account. Several clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia are enough for that and you'll only have to type in the hostname and the IP address of the mail server which will be allowed to send messages from your e-mail addresses. If the e-mails are managed on our end and not by another supplier, you can increase the security level even more and take advantage of an option for all of the outgoing e-mails to be sent only if your domains feature our MX records. This option provides you with better control and it will eliminate any chance of someone faking your emails with the objective of spamming or scamming people. It's not applicable in case just your web site is hosted on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, while your emails are handled by a different provider. If you are not sure what options to choose, our tech support staff will help you 24/7.