Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, that is employed to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an email message is sent from one e-mail, but to seem as being sent from another, typically with the idea to fraud the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is activated for a domain, an exclusive record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all of the DNS servers globally get it. The record contains all of the email servers that are permitted to send valid messages from an email address part of the domain. When a message is sent, the first DNS server it goes to verifies the SPF record and in case its sending server is authorized, the message is sent to the target destination. If, however, the sending server is not contained in the SPF record for the specified domain, the e-mail message will not be submitted and it will be removed. Whenever you use this service, it'll stop third parties from sending spam which appear to have been sent by you.
SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting
The SPF protection feature is available as standard with every single cloud hosting package that we supply and you're able to use it with ease in order to protect the e-mail addresses for any domain hosted within your account. The service is managed through the Emails section of our advanced, albeit easy to work with Hepsia Control Panel. All it takes to activate the protection is to type in the IP address of the e-mail server in addition to its hostname - mail.server.com, for instance. As soon as the protection is active, only this server will be able to send email messages from emails made under the domain name that you've selected. Your e-mail addresses can be handled by a different company, but when we manage them in addition to your website, you can enable the option for your emails to be sent only if the domain has our MX records. This solution gives you better protection as just our server will be approved to send out email messages from your mailboxes and you will have better control. When you have any kind of questions or if you experience any sort of problems with this service, you will be able to contact our technical support team anytime and they will help you in a timely manner.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
The SPF protection attribute is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers, so in case you host your domain names in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to activate this service easily for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, features a rather easy to work with interface, which means that you do not need to be proficient in the use of computers to secure your emails. You'll simply need to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you would like to be allowed to send e-mails from your addresses and right after that the updated record will be active for the domain name that you have picked. As an extra option, we also give you the ability to limit the outgoing e-mail messages and secure your mailboxes even better by permitting email messages to be sent only when the domain name involved includes our MX records i.e. the emails for the domain have to be taken care of here and not by another supplier. Doing so you will have even superior control and there won't be any chance for someone to fake your email addresses for malicious purposes.