Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, that is used to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one e-mail, but to appear as being sent from a different one, frequently with the purpose to fraud the recipient someway. When SPF protection is activated for a domain name, an exclusive record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all of the DNS servers around the world get it. The record includes all mail servers that are allowed to send authentic messages from an address under the domain. When a message is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters checks the SPF record and when its sending server is permitted, the message is sent to the target destination. In case, however, the sending server doesn't exist in the SPF record for the given domain, the e-mail message will not be forwarded and it will be discarded. Whenever you employ this service, it'll prevent third parties from sending spam that appear to have been sent by you.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for any domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a couple of clicks. The feature is available in the Emails section of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to use it is to pick one of your domain names from a drop-down list and then type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers which will be approved to send emails from your emails. As an additional option you can also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers handle the email addresses for it, not a third-party provider. This feature gives you the highest degree of protection, but it is not applicable if only your site is on our servers while your emails for the domain name are handled in another place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, you'll be able to secure your emails by activating the SPF security service for every domain name in the account with only a few clicks. This is done in the Emails section of our Hepsia Control Panel which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous practical experience with these kinds of matters, you won't have any trouble to enable the protection. All that you will need to do will be to find a domain from a drop-down menu and then type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. The moment the new record propagates, messages from your emails will be delivered globally only if they're sent from that specific server. In case your e-mail addresses are managed by us and not by some third-party supplier, you will also be able to activate an option for emails to be mailed only when the domain name features our MX records and the latter is the safest option. In case you have any kind of questions about thisfeature, you can contact our tech support team 24/7.