SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an email protection system, which is is intended to confirm if an email message was sent by a certified server. Employing SPF protection for a particular domain name will stop the forging of email addresses created with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain creates a particular record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP addresses of the servers which are permitted to send emails from mailboxes under the domain. Once this record propagates globally, it exists on all DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. Whenever some email message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses checks whether it comes from an accredited server. When it does, it is sent to the destination address, but if it doesn't come from a server listed in the SPF record for the domain, it's discarded. In this way nobody will be able to mask an email address to make it appear as if you're distributing spam messages. This approach is also referred to as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

The SPF protection feature is provided by default with each shared hosting plan that we offer and you'll be able to use it without difficulty in order to secure the e-mail addresses for each domain name hosted in your account. The service is operated from the Emails section of the advanced, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. All you need to enable the protection is to type in the IP of the email server and its hostname - mail.server.com, for instance. The moment the protection is activated, only this server will be able to send out e-mail messages from emails created under the domain that you've picked. Your email addresses may be managed by some other supplier, but when we handle them together with your web site, you may also activate the option for your e-mails to be sent only when the domain uses our MX records. This selection gives you greater protection as solely our server will be permitted to send email messages from your mailboxes and you will have improved control. When you have any questions or if you experience any kind of problems with this service, you will be able to contact our technical support team at any time and they'll assist you without delay.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The SPF protection feature is featured with all of the Linux semi-dedicated packages, so in case you host your domain names in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you'll be able to use this particular service without difficulty for any of your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a quite easy to use interface, which means that you won't have to be proficient in the use of computers in order to protected your email addresses. You'll simply need to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you'd like to be certified to send e-mails from your addresses and right after that the new record will be activated for the domain name that you have selected. As an additional option, we will also allow you to control the outgoing e-mail messages and secure your mailboxes even better by allowing emails to be sent only if the domain in question features our MX records i.e. the emails for the domain should be handled by us and not by a different provider. Thus you'll have even better control and there will not be any chance for someone to fake your e-mail addresses for harmful activities.