SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a verification system that is aimed at preventing the so-called e-mail forging. Essentially, this indicates sending some message from one email and making it look like it’s sent from a different one with the purpose to scam in some manner the person opening it. If the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record that includes all the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses under the domain is generated. The record is kept on all the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic globally, so that they all can identify whether an e-mail message originates from a trustworthy server or not. The verification is performed at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, while in the second one it's removed and it never gets to the intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domains will prevent all unwanted people from making use of your emails for harmful purposes.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for each domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform with only a couple of mouse-clicks. The option can be found in the Emails section of our amazing Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to use it is to choose one of your domain names from a drop-down list and then type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be approved to send emails from your emails. As an additional option you can even restrict the emails to be sent from your domain name only if it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not some third-party provider. This feature offers you the highest level of security, but it is not applicable when only your web site is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain are managed in another place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The SPF protection function is provided with all the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, so if you host your domains in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you'll be able to activate this service effortlessly for all your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a quite intuitive interface, therefore you will not have to be proficient in the use of computers in order to protected your e-mail addresses. You'll simply need to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you'd like to be permitted to send e-mails from your addresses and immediately after that the updated record will be active for the domain name that you've selected. As an additional option, we also allow you to restrict your outgoing e-mail messages and secure your mailboxes even further by allowing email messages to be sent only when the domain name involved includes our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain name should be taken care of on our end and not by a different company. Doing so you'll have even superior control and there won't be a chance for anybody to counterfeit your email addresses for malicious objectives.