SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at preventing the so-called e-mail faking. Basically, this means sending some message from one email and making it appear to be sent from another with the purpose to scam in some way the individual opening it. In case the SPF protection is active for a domain, a record which includes all the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses in the domain is generated. The record is saved on all of the DNS servers that route the web traffic worldwide, thus they all will identify if an email message originates from a legitimate server or not. The check is done at the very first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the e-mail message is forwarded, whereas in the second it's discarded and it never gets to its intended recipient. Using SPF records for your domain names will prevent any unauthorized people from making use of your emails for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

The SPF protection feature is provided as standard with each and every cloud hosting package that we offer and you will be able to use it without difficulty so that you can secure the email addresses for each domain name hosted as part of your account. The service is managed through the Emails section of the outstanding, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. All you need to activate the protection is to type in the IP address of the email server and its hostname - mail.server.com, for example. As soon as the protection is activated, only this server will be able to send out emails from emails generated under the domain name that you have selected. Your email addresses may be managed by another provider, but when we handle them along with your site, you can also activate the option for email messages to be sent only if the domain has our MX records. This solution provides you with even better protection as solely our server will be approved to send out email messages from your mailboxes and you'll have improved control. If you have any kind of questions or in case you have any problems with this service, you'll be able to contact our tech support team anytime and they'll help you right away.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection function comes with all the Linux semi-dedicated servers, so when you host your domains in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to use this particular service easily for all of your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a really user-friendly interface, therefore you do not need to be tech-savvy in order to protected your emails. You will only have to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you'd like to be permitted to send out e-mails from your addresses and right after that the new record will be active for the domain that you've chosen. As an extra option, we'll also allow you to limit the outgoing email messages and protect your mailboxes even further by permitting email messages to be sent only if the domain in question contains our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain name have to be managed on our end and not by a different company. By doing this you will enjoy even superior control and there won't be any chances for any person to forge your email addresses for harmful objectives.