SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at blocking the so-called email forging. Essentially, this means sending some message from one e-mail address and making it seem to be sent from another one with the idea to scam in some way the individual getting it. In the event that the SPF protection is active for a domain name, a record that includes all the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses under the domain is made. The record is kept on all the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic internationally, so that they all will recognize if an email message comes from a legitimate server or not. The check is performed at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, and in the second it's discarded and it never reaches the supposed recipient. Applying SPF records for your domain names will prevent any unauthorized people from making use of your email addresses for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for every domain name hosted in a cloud hosting account on our cloud platform with just a couple of clicks. The option is available in the Emails section of our outstanding Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to use it is to choose one of your domain names from a drop-down menu and type in the hostnames plus the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers which will be certified to send email messages from your emails. As an additional option you can also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only when it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers handle the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This solution gives you the best degree of security, but it is not applicable when only your site is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain name are handled somewhere else. Either way, the SPF protection service will keep your emails protected from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection attribute comes with all of the semi-dedicated servers, so when you host your domain names in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you are able to activate the service easily for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a quite intuitive interface, which means that you do not need to be proficient in the use of computers in order to protected your e-mail addresses. You'll only have to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you would like to be permitted to send out e-mails from your addresses and immediately after that the updated record will be activated for the domain name that you've picked. As a further option, we'll also allow you to restrict your outgoing emails and secure your mailboxes even better by allowing email messages to be sent only when the domain involved has our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain name need to be managed by us and not by a different company. Thus you will enjoy even superior control and there won't be a chance for somebody to fake your email addresses for malicious activities.