SPF, which is an acronym for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail safety system, that is used to verify if an e-mail message was sent by an authorized server. Using SPF protection for a particular domain will prevent the counterfeiting of emails generated with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain creates a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which contains the IP addresses of the servers that are allowed to send e-mail messages from mailboxes under the domain. Once this record propagates globally, it will exist on all of the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Any time some e-mail message is sent, the initial DNS server it goes through verifies whether it originates from an authorized server. When it does, it's forwarded to the destination address, but if it doesn't originate from a server part of the SPF record for the particular domain, it's rejected. In this way nobody can mask an e-mail address to make it appear as if you're distributing spam. This method is also referred to as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for every domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform with only a couple of clicks. The feature is available in the Emails section of our exceptional Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down menu and then enter the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers that will be authorized to send messages from your emails. As an additional option you may also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This feature gives you the best level of security, but it's not applicable when only your website is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain are managed in another place. Either way, 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 with us, you will be able to secure your email addresses by enabling the SPF security service for any domain name hosted in your account with only a couple of clicks. You can do this from the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous experience with these kinds of issues, you won't have any trouble to enable the security. Everything that you'll have to do is to choose a domain name from a drop-down list and then type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. As soon as the updated record propagates, messages from your email addresses will be mailed globally only if they're sent from that server. When your emails are managed by our company and not by a third-party supplier, you will also be able to benefit from an option for email messages to be mailed only if the domain name contains our MX records and the latter would be the most secure option. In case you have any kind of questions regarding thisfunction, you can get in touch with our support team 24/7.