SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is an authentication system that aims at blocking the so-called e-mail faking. Essentially, this indicates sending some message from one e-mail address and making it look like it’s sent from a different one with the objective to scam in some way the person getting it. If the SPF protection is active for a domain, a record that contains all the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses under the domain is generated. The record is placed on all of the DNS servers that route the web traffic all over the world, so they all can identify if an e-mail message comes from a valid server or not. The check is performed at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, whereas in the second it is discarded and it never reaches its intended recipient. Using SPF records for your domains will stop all unwanted people from making use of your email addresses for malicious objectives.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you host your domains in a cloud hosting account with us and we manage the emails for them, you will be able to activate SPF protection for any of them with several clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in a section of its own where you're able to see which domains are already secured. For those that aren't, you can activate the SPF protection option and configure a lot of things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your e-mails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, and even to set a rule that messages can be sent only if your domain names have our MX records. The aforementioned choice is the most secure one, and it can be used in the event that we take care of the emails for your domains and you're not using a different e-mail supplier. The newly generated records will propagate within 1 day and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in an e-mail by using your e-mail addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are able to protect your email addresses by enabling the SPF protection service for any domain name hosted in the account with just a few clicks. You can do this in the Emails section of our Hepsia Control Panel that is included with the semi-dedicated accounts and even in case you have no previous practical experience with these kinds of issues, you won't have any kind of difficulties to activate the security. Everything that you will have to do will be to choose a domain name from a drop-down list then type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. The moment the new record propagates, messages from your email addresses will be delivered globally only if they were sent from that specific server. If your email addresses are taken care of by us and not by a third-party provider, you'll also be able to benefit from an option for e-mail messages to be mailed only when the domain features our MX records and this is the safest option. When you have any questions regarding thisfunction, you'll be able to contact our support crew 24/7.