SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that aims at protecting against the so-called email faking. Essentially, it indicates sending a message from one e-mail and making it seem to be sent from a different one with the purpose to scam in some manner the person receiving it. If the SPF protection is active for a domain, a record which includes all mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses in the domain is created. The record is saved on all DNS servers that direct the web traffic internationally, thus they all will identify whether an e-mail message comes from a trustworthy server or not. The check is conducted at the very first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, while in the second it's discarded and it never gets to its intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domains will prevent all unauthorized people from making use of your email addresses for malicious objectives.
SPF Protection in Shared Web Hosting
SPF protection can be enabled for every domain name hosted in a shared web hosting account on our cloud platform with just a few clicks. The function is accessible in the Emails section of our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to choose one of your domains from the drop-down list and then type in the hostnames along with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be authorized to send email messages from your emails. As an added option you may also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, i.e. when our servers handle the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party provider. This solution will give you the top level of security, but it is not applicable when only your web site is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain are handled elsewhere. Either way, the SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as part of the regular collection of services that you will receive with this kind of website hosting. Starting the protection involves just a couple of easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel, therefore even in the event that you have never used this type of function before, you will not have any issues. Through a really intuitive interface, you'll simply have to enter the information of the mail server that will be certified to send messages from your e-mail addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). Once the newly made record propagates, nobody will be able to counterfeit any email address for that particular domain and send emails from a server other than the one you have typed in. This does not specifically have to be our mail server, yet when we manage your email messages, you are able to allow one more level of protection by picking an option that email messages can be send from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain uses our MX records. Our technical support staff will be able to assist you 24/7 in case you have any questions about this service.