SPF, which is short for Sender Policy Framework, is an email safety system, that is employed to validate whether an email message was sent by a certified server. Employing SPF protection for a given domain will stop the forging of email addresses made with the domain. In layman's terms: enabling this feature for a domain name creates a particular record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which contains the IP of the servers which are permitted to send emails from mail boxes under the domain. When this record propagates globally, it will exist on all the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. Any time some email message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses verifies whether it comes from an authorized server. In the event it does, it is sent to the destination address, yet if it doesn't originate from a server indexed in the SPF record for the particular domain, it is discarded. In this way nobody will mask an e-mail address and make it appear as if you are sending spam. This approach is also identified as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

The SPF protection option is accessible by default with each and every shared hosting plan that we offer and you're able to use it without any difficulty to protect the e-mail addresses for each domain hosted in your account. The service is operated through the Emails section of the innovative, albeit easy-to-navigate Hepsia Control Panel. What is needed to activate the protection is to type in the IP of the e-mail server as well as its hostname - mail.server.com, for instance. As soon as the protection is active, only this server will be able to send out e-mails from e-mails generated under the domain name that you've selected. Your email addresses can be managed by another company, but in case that we manage them along with your website, you can also activate an option for e-mails to be sent only if the domain uses our MX records. This option provides you with superior security as solely our server will be permitted to send out e-mail messages from your mailboxes and you will have better control. If you have any questions or in case you have any kind of difficulties with this service, you will be able to contact our technical support team at any time and they will assist you without delay.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The SPF protection feature is featured with all of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting, so when you host your domain names in an account on our cloud hosting platform, you're able to activate this service with ease for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts, has a rather user-friendly interface, therefore you won't need to be tech-savvy in order to secure your emails. You'll simply have to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you would like to be permitted to send out e-mails from your addresses and shortly after that the updated record will be active for the domain that you have picked. As an additional option, we will also give you the ability to restrict the outgoing e-mail messages and secure your mailboxes even further by allowing email messages to be sent only if the domain name in question includes our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain name have to be taken care of here and not by another provider. Thus you will enjoy even superior control and there won't be any chance for somebody to fake your email addresses for harmful purposes.