SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an email safety system, that is used to confirm whether an email message is sent by a licensed server. Employing SPF protection for a domain name will prevent the counterfeiting of emails generated with the domain. In layman's terms: enabling this feature for a domain makes a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which includes the IP of the servers that are allowed to send emails from mailboxes under the domain. Once this record propagates worldwide, it exists on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Whenever a new e-mail message is sent, the first DNS server it goes through verifies if it originates from an authorized server. In the event it does, it is sent to the destination address, but when it doesn't come from a server part of the SPF record for the particular domain, it is discarded. Thus nobody will mask an email address and make it appear as if you're distributing spam messages. This approach is also termed email spoofing.
SPF Protection in Website Hosting
SPF protection can be activated for every domain hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud platform with only a few mouse-clicks. The function can be found in the Emails section of our state-of-the-art Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable it is to choose one of your domain names from a drop-down list and then type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be certified to send messages from your emails. As an added option you may also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain name only if it has our MX records, in other words when our servers manage the email addresses for it, not a third-party provider. This solution will provide you with the top standard of protection, but it's not applicable when only your website is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain are taken care of elsewhere. Either way, 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
When you host your domain names in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you can employ the SPF protection feature as a part of the conventional group of services that you will get with this kind of website hosting. Enabling the protection will involve just a few easy steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, thus even in case you haven't employed such a feature before, you will not have any type of problems. Through a very user-friendly interface, you will just need to insert the details of the mail server which will be authorized to send out messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the newly made record propagates, no one will be able to forge any email for that particular domain and send out e-mail messages from a server different from the one you have entered. This does not necessarily have to be our mail server, yet in case we take care of your email messages, you are able to activate an extra level of security by choosing an option that e-mail messages can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only in case the domain employs our MX records. Our tech support crew will be able to assist you 24/7 if you have any kind of questions regarding this service.