SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an email protection system, which is designed to verify if an email message is sent by an official server. Using SPF protection for a domain will prevent the forging of emails created with the domain. In simple words: enabling this function for a domain creates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which includes the IP addresses of the servers that are permitted to send emails from mail boxes under the domain. The moment this record propagates globally, it exists on all DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. Every time a new email message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses checks whether it comes from an accredited server. If it does, it's forwarded to the destination address, however when it does not come from a server listed in the SPF record for the domain, it's rejected. In this way nobody will be able to mask an e-mail address to make it look as if you are sending spam messages. This technique is also called email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Hosting

The SPF protection option is available as standard with each hosting plan that we supply and you will be able to use it without any difficulty in order to protect the emails for any domain hosted in your account. The service is managed from the Emails section of our innovative, and easy to work with Hepsia Control Panel. What is needed to enable the protection is to type the IP address of the mail server as well as its hostname - mail.server.com, for instance. The moment the protection is activated, only this server will be able to send e-mails from email addresses generated under the domain that you've picked. Your emails can be managed by some other company, but when we take care of them together with your web site, you can enable an option for e-mail messages to be sent only when the domain features our MX records. This selection provides you with superior protection as exclusively our server will be permitted to send e-mails from your mailboxes and you will have better control. If you have any questions or if you have any sort of issues with this particular service, you'll be able to contact our tech support team at any time and they'll give you a hand right away.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection function is available with all Linux semi-dedicated servers, so if you host your domains in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you are able to activate this particular service effortlessly for any of your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, features a really intuitive interface, so you won't need to be proficient in the use of computers to protected your e-mail addresses. You will simply have to type the hostname and the IP 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 name that you have picked. As a further option, we will also give you the ability to restrict the outgoing e-mail messages and secure your mailboxes even better by permitting messages to be sent only if the domain involved includes our MX records i.e. the email messages for the domain need to be handled on our end and not by some other provider. By doing this you'll have even superior control and there won't be any chances for someone to fake your e-mails for malicious intentions.