SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at protecting against the so-called e-mail faking. Basically, this means sending a message from one e-mail and making it look like it’s sent from a different one with the purpose to scam in some way the individual opening it. If the SPF protection is active for a domain, a record that includes all of the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses within the domain is created. The record is saved on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic all over the world, therefore they all can identify whether an e-mail message comes from a trustworthy server or not. The verification is conducted at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, while in the second one it's discarded and it never reaches the supposed recipient. Employing SPF records for your domains will prevent any unwanted people from making use of your email addresses for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Shared Web Hosting

When you host your domains in a shared web hosting account with us and we manage the emails for them, you will be able to activate SPF protection for all of them with several clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. This service can be found in its own section where you can see which domain names are currently protected. For the ones that are not, you'll be able to enable the SPF protection service and set up numerous things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your emails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, as well as to create a rule that messages can be sent only when your domains have our MX records. The aforementioned solution is the most secure one, and you can use it if we take care of the email addresses for your domains and do not use some other e-mail supplier. The newly generated records will propagate within one day and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in an email with your addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you'll be able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as part of the standard set of services that you will have with this kind of hosting. Activating the protection involves just a few easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel, therefore even if you've never employed this type of feature before, you won't have any kind of troubles. Employing a very intuitive interface, you will just have to enter the details of the mail server that will be permitted to send out messages from your e-mail addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). The moment the recently created record propagates, no one will be able to counterfeit any email address for that particular domain name and send emails from a server different from the one you've typed in. This doesn't specifically have to be our mail server, still when we take care of your e-mails, you can enable one more level of protection by choosing an option that emails can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain employs our MX records. Our technical support team will be able to assist you 24/7 in case you have any questions regarding this service.