Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, that is used to stop the so-called email spoofing where an email message is sent from one e-mail address, but to look as being sent from another, frequently with the purpose to fraud the recipient for some reason. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, a special record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all the DNS servers worldwide get it. The record contains all of the email servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an e-mail address under the domain. When an email is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to verifies the SPF record and in case its sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the targeted destination. When, however, the sending server is not contained in the SPF record for the given domain, the message will not be submitted and it will be removed. In case 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 Website Hosting

If you host your domain names in a shared website hosting account with us and we handle the e-mail addresses for them, you will be able to activate SPF protection for any of them with several clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in a section of its own where you'll be able to view which domain names are already protected. For those that are not, you will be able to enable the SPF protection solution and manage a number 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 create a rule that emails can be sent only when your domain names use our MX records. The last solution is the most secure one, but it can be used when we take care of the emails for your domains and you are not using some other email supplier. The newly generated records will be activated within one day and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in a message by using your e-mail addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The SPF protection attribute is featured with all the Linux semi-dedicated hosting, so in case you host your domain names in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you can activate this particular service without difficulty for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, features a very easy to use interface, so you don't need to be proficient in the use of computers in order to protected your email addresses. You will simply have to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you would like to be authorized to send out emails from your addresses and right after that the new record will be active for the domain name that you've chosen. As an extra option, we also give you the ability to control your outgoing email messages and protect your mailboxes even better by allowing emails to be sent only if the domain in question features our MX records i.e. the email messages for the domain should be taken care of here and not by another company. By doing so you'll enjoy even better control and there will not be any chances for someone to fake your e-mails for malicious objectives.