SPF, which is an acronym for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail safety system, which is designed to confirm if an e-mail message was sent by an authorized server. Employing SPF protection for a given domain will stop the counterfeiting of email addresses generated with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this function for a domain name creates a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP of the servers that are allowed to send email messages from mail boxes under the domain. Once this record propagates worldwide, it exists on all of the DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. When a new email message is sent, the initial DNS server it goes through tests if it comes from an official server. If it does, it is sent to the destination address, however when it doesn't come from a server listed in the SPF record for the domain, it's discarded. Thus nobody will mask an email address and make it look as if you are distributing spam. This method is also called email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Website Hosting

You can activate the SPF protection option for your domains with a few clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared website hosting service. This is performed from the section with the same name and you're able to enable the protection for each and every domain name on our modern cloud hosting platform. Using a really simple interface, all you will have to submit is the hostname of the mail server that will be approved to send messages from your emails and its IPv4 or IPv6 address. Of course, you are able to include several servers too, if needed. In case your e-mails are handled on our end, you can also employ an even more risk-free option by setting a limit that email messages can be sent only when your domains feature our MX records. This solution can't be applied if your website is here, and the e-mail addresses are with some third-party supplier. Either way, the SPF protection solution will definitely improve your online safety and stop others from forging your email addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection feature is available with all of the semi-dedicated servers, so if you host your domains in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to use the service effortlessly for all of your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts, has a really easy to work with interface, which means that you will not need to be proficient in the use of computers to protected your e-mail addresses. You'll simply need to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you would like to be permitted to send out emails from your addresses and shortly after that the new record will be active for the domain name that you have picked. As an additional option, we will also allow you to restrict your outgoing email messages and secure your mailboxes further by permitting emails to be sent only when the domain name involved includes our MX records i.e. the email messages for the domain name need to be handled on our end and not by another supplier. By doing this you'll get even superior control and there will not be a chance for someone to fake your emails for harmful intentions.