Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, that is designed to prevent the so-called e-mail spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one email address, but to seem as being sent from another, frequently with the purpose to fraud the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, a unique record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all of the DNS servers worldwide get it. The record contains all e-mail servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an address within the domain. When a message is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters checks the SPF record and if the sending server is authorized, the message is forwarded to the target destination. If, however, the sending server is not included in the SPF record for the specified domain, the message won't be sent and it'll be removed. If you employ this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam emails which seem to have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You are able to activate the SPF protection option for your domain names with a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with our Linux shared website hosting packages. This carried out via the section bearing an identical name and you're able to set up the protection for each and every domain name part of our advanced cloud platform. Using a really intuitive interface, all you will have to submit is the hostname of the mail server which will be permitted to send messages from your email addresses and its IPv4 or IPv6 address. Of course, you are able to add several servers too, when needed. In case your email addresses are handled on our end, you may also use an even more secure option by putting a restriction that e-mail messages can be sent only when your domains have our MX records. This option can't be used if your site is hosted here, while the e-mail addresses are with a third-party supplier. In either case, the SPF protection option will vastly increase your online protection and stop others from counterfeiting your email addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The SPF protection feature is available with all the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, so in case you host your domains in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you're able to use the service without difficulty for all your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, features a quite user-friendly interface, therefore you won't need to be proficient in the use of computers to protected your e-mail addresses. 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 immediately after that the updated record will be activated for the domain that you've picked. As an extra option, we'll also allow you to limit the outgoing email messages and protect your mailboxes further by allowing messages to be sent only if the domain involved contains our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain have to be managed by us and not by another company. By doing so you will have even better control and there won't be a chance for anyone to fake your email addresses for harmful purposes.