Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is designed to stop the so-called email spoofing where an email message is sent from one address, but to look as being sent from a different one, frequently with the idea to fraud the recipient someway. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, a specific record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally have it. The record features all of the e-mail servers that are allowed to send legitimate messages from an email address under the domain. When an email is sent, the very first DNS server it encounters checks the SPF record and if its sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the target destination. When, however, the sending server is not included in the SPF record for the given domain, the email message won't be sent and it'll be discarded. If you employ this solution, it'll stop third parties from sending spam e-mails which seem to have been sent from you.
SPF Protection in Shared Hosting
SPF protection can be activated for any domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform with just a few clicks. The feature can be found in the Emails section of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to use it is to pick one of your domain names from a drop-down list and type in the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers which will be authorized to send email messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you can even restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it includes our MX records, in other words when our servers handle the email addresses for it, not a third-party provider. This solution provides you with the top standard of protection, but it is not applicable if only your site is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain name are managed in a different place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses risk-free from being used for spam and scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, that comes as standard with all of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, offers you a very intuitive interface to enable the SPF protection service for any domain that you host within your new account. Several clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia are enough for that and you will only have to type in the hostname and the IP address of the mail server which will be permitted to send out messages from your e-mails. When the e-mail messages are handled by us and not by a different supplier, you can boost the security level even further and take advantage of an option for your outgoing email messages to be sent only if your domain names use our MX records. This option provides you with more control and it'll eliminate any chance of somebody counterfeiting your e-mail addresses with the purpose of spamming and scamming people. It's not applicable in case only your site is on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, while your emails are handled by some other provider. If you are not sure what features to choose, our tech support team will help you 24/7.