Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, which is employed to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an email message is sent from one email address, but to appear as being sent from a different one, often with the purpose to scam the recipient for some reason. When SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, a special record is made for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally have it. The record includes all the mail servers that are allowed to send authentic messages from an address under the domain. When an email is sent, the first DNS server it encounters checks the SPF record and if its sending server is authorized, the message is sent to the targeted receiver. If, however, the sending server is not present in the SPF record for the given domain, the e-mail message won't be submitted and it will be discarded. In case you employ this solution, it will stop third parties from sending spam which seem to have been sent by you.

SPF Protection in Hosting

When you host your domains in a hosting account on our end and we handle the emails for them, you'll be able to activate SPF protection for them with a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. This service can be found in a section of its own where you're able to see which domains are already protected. For the ones which aren't, you'll be able to enable the SPF protection option and manage a variety of things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your emails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, and to set a rule that messages can be sent only when your domain names use our MX records. The last choice is the most secure one, and it can be used in the event that we handle the e-mail addresses for your domains and you're not using some other e-mail service provider. The new records will be activated within 1 day and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in an e-mail with your e-mail addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, that comes as standard with all of our Linux semi-dedicated packages, offers you a really user-friendly interface to enable the SPF security service for any domain that you host in your new account. Several clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia will be enough for that and you'll only have to enter the hostname and the IP address of the mail server that will be allowed to send messages from your email addresses. When the emails are managed on our end and not by another supplier, you are able to increase the protection level even more and enable an option for all the outgoing e-mails to be sent only if your domains feature our MX records. This option provides you with more control and it'll eliminate any chance of someone faking your emails with the objective of spamming and / or scamming people. It is not applicable when just your web site is hosted on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, while your emails are handled by a different service provider. If you aren't sure what features to pick, our tech support staff will help you 24/7.