Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, that is employed to prevent the so-called e-mail spoofing where an email message is sent from one address, but to seem as being sent from another one, usually with the purpose to scam the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is activated for a domain name, an exclusive record is made for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers worldwide get it. The record features all mail servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an address under the domain. When an email is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to checks the SPF record and when the sending server is authorized, the message is sent to the targeted receiver. In case, however, the sending server doesn't exist in the SPF record for the given domain, the e-mail message won't be sent and it'll be discarded. Whenever you employ this service, it will prevent third parties from sending spam that appear to have been sent by you.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

The SPF protection feature is available as standard with each and every cloud hosting plan that we supply and you are able to use it without any difficulty to protect the email addresses for each domain hosted within your account. The service is operated from the Emails section of the state-of-the-art, yet easy to work with Hepsia Control Panel. All it takes to enable the protection is to type in the IP address of the email server as well as its hostname - mail.server.com, for instance. The moment the protection is active, only this server will be able to send out e-mails from emails made under the domain that you've picked. Your email addresses can be taken care of by some other provider, but when we take care of them together with your site, you can also activate the option for your email messages to be sent only if the domain has our MX records. This selection gives you greater security as solely our server will be permitted 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 troubles with this particular service, you will be able to contact our technical support team at any time and they will assist you without delay.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account from us, you are able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as part of the conventional set of services that you will receive with this type of hosting. Activating the protection will involve only a couple of easy steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel, thus even in the event that you haven't used such a feature before, you will not have any troubles. Employing an exceptionally intuitive interface, you will just have to enter the details of the mail server which will be certified to send messages from your addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the newly generated record propagates, nobody will be able to counterfeit any email address for that particular domain name and send out e-mail messages from a server other than the one you have entered. This does not specifically have to be our mail server, still when we take care of your e-mails, you will be able to enable an extra level of security by selecting an option that email messages can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain uses our MX records. Our technical support crew can help you 24/7 if you have any kind of questions related to this service.