Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, which is intended to stop the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one email address, but to look as being sent from a different one, usually with the idea to fraud the recipient in some way. If SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, a specific record is made for it in the Domain Name System and all the DNS servers globally have it. The record includes all of the e-mail servers that are allowed to send legitimate messages from an address under the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to checks the SPF record and if its sending server is permitted, the message is sent to the targeted destination. When, however, the sending server is not contained in the SPF record for the specified domain, the e-mail message won't be forwarded and it will be discarded. When you employ this solution, it'll stop third parties from sending spam emails that appear to have been sent by you.
SPF Protection in Website Hosting
SPF protection can be enabled for each domain name hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud platform with only a couple of mouse-clicks. The function is available in the Emails section of our state-of-the-art Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate it is to choose one of your domain names from a drop-down menu and to enter the hostnames plus the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers which will be approved to send messages from your email addresses. As an added option you may also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only when it has our MX records, i.e. if our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party supplier. This solution offers you the best degree of safety, but it is not applicable in case only your site is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain are handled somewhere else. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your email addresses risk-free from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which is included with all of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, will provide you with an exceptionally easy-to-use interface to activate the SPF protection service for every domain name that you host in your new account. A few clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia will be enough for that and you will only have to enter the hostname and the IP address of the mail server which will be allowed to send out messages from your email addresses. In case the e-mail messages are taken care of on our end and not by some other supplier, you are able to raise the security level even further and benefit from an option for the outgoing emails to be sent only if your domains use our MX records. This option will give you increased control and it'll eliminate any chance of anyone faking your emails with the objective of spamming and / or scamming people. It's not applicable in case only your site is hosted on our modern cloud website hosting platform, while your email addresses are handled by another provider. If you aren't sure what features to pick, our technical support staff will help you 24/7.