SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an email safety system, which is used to confirm if an e-mail message was sent by an authorized server. Using SPF protection for a domain will stop the forging of emails created with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain name generates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which contains the IP of the servers which are allowed to send email messages from mail boxes under the domain. Once this record propagates globally, it will exist on all of the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Whenever a new email message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses checks if it originates from an authorized server. When it does, it is sent to the destination address, however when it does not originate from a server part of the SPF record for the domain, it's discarded. Thus nobody can mask an e-mail address to make it appear as if you are distributing spam messages. This method is also referred to as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

If you host your domains in a shared hosting account with us and we manage the e-mails for them, you'll be able to activate SPF protection for all of them with a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. This service can be found in its own section where you are able to see which domain names are already secured. For those that aren't, you can activate the SPF protection option and manage numerous things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your e-mail addresses, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, as well as to set a rule that email messages can be sent only if your domain names use our MX records. The last mentioned choice is the most secure one, but it can be used when we take care of the emails for your domain names and you are not using some other e-mail provider. The new records will be activated within a 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

When you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you are able to use the SPF protection feature as part of the regular set of services that you will get with this type of website hosting. Starting the protection involves just a few simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel, therefore even when you've never employed this kind of function before, you won't have any issues. Employing a very user-friendly interface, you will only need to type in the details of the mail server which will be certified to send messages from your addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the recently created record propagates, no one will be able to fake any e-mail address for that particular domain name and send emails from a server different from the one you have entered. This does not specifically have to be our mail server, still when we handle your emails, you're able to enable an extra level of protection by selecting an option that email messages can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in case the domain employs our MX records. Our technical support crew will be able to help you 24/7 if you have any kind of questions regarding this service.