Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a validation system, that is used to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message can be sent from one email, but to seem as being sent from another, frequently with the purpose to scam the recipient for some reason. When SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a special record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally have it. The record includes all email servers that are allowed to send authentic messages from an e-mail address under the domain. When a message is sent, the very first DNS server it goes to verifies the SPF record and when its sending server is authorized, the message is forwarded to the targeted receiver. In case, however, the sending server is not contained in the SPF record for the specified domain, the e-mail message will not be forwarded and it will be removed. Whenever you employ this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam e-mails which seem to have been sent from you.

SPF Protection in Web Hosting

If you host your domain names in a web hosting account on our end and we handle the e-mails for them, you are able to enable SPF protection for all of them with a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is available in its own section where you can see which domains are currently protected. For those that are not, you will be able to activate the SPF protection service and set up numerous things during the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your e-mail addresses, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, as well as to set a rule that messages can be sent only if your domains have our MX records. The last solution is the most secure one, and you can use it in the event that we handle the email addresses for your domain names and you are not using another e-mail provider. The newly generated records will propagate within a day and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in an e-mail by using your email addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, that comes as standard with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will provide you with a really user-friendly interface to activate the SPF protection service for each domain that you host in your new account. Just a few clicks in the Emails section of Hepsia will be enough for that and you will only have to type in the hostname and the IP address of the mail server which will be permitted to send messages from your emails. In case the email messages are managed by us and not by some other provider, you are able to boost the security level even more and take advantage of an option for all the outgoing e-mail messages to be sent only if your domains feature our MX records. This option provides you with better control and it will eliminate any chance of anybody forging your emails with the objective of spamming and / or scamming people. It is not applicable in case just your website is on our advanced cloud hosting platform, while your e-mails are managed by some other provider. If you aren't sure what features to select, our technical support staff will assist you 24/7.