Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, which is intended to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one email, but to look as being sent from a different one, generally with the idea to fraud the recipient for some reason. When SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a special record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers worldwide get it. The record contains all the e-mail servers that are allowed to send valid messages from an address part of the domain. When an email is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters verifies the SPF record and in case its sending server is authorized, the message is sent to the targeted destination. If, however, the sending server doesn't exist in the SPF record for the particular domain, the e-mail message will not be sent and it'll be discarded. Whenever you employ this service, it will prevent third parties from sending spam messages that seem to have been sent from you.
SPF Protection in Shared Web Hosting
When you host your domain names in a shared web hosting account with us and we manage the emails for them, you will be able to enable SPF protection for any of them with a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in its own section where you will be able to see which domain names are currently secured. For those that are not, you'll be able to activate the SPF protection option and manage numerous things during the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your mailboxes, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, as well as to create a rule that email messages can be sent only if your domain names use our MX records. The aforementioned solution is the most secure one, and you can use it in the event that we handle the e-mails for your domains and you are not using a different e-mail provider. The newly generated records will propagate within one day and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in an e-mail by using your addresses.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with all of our semi-dedicated hosting, offers you an incredibly easy-to-use interface to enable the SPF protection service for each domain that you host in your new account. A couple of clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia are enough for that then you'll only have to type in the hostname and the IP address of the mail server which will be allowed to send messages from your emails. When the email messages are handled by us and not by some other provider, you're able to increase the security level even further and benefit from an option for the outgoing email messages to be sent only if your domain names use our MX records. This option will provide you with better control and it'll eliminate any chance of someone counterfeiting your e-mail addresses with the intention of spamming and / or scamming people. It's not applicable if just your web site is on our outstanding cloud website hosting platform, while your e-mail addresses are managed by another provider. If you aren't sure what features to pick, our tech support staff will help you 24/7.