SPF, which stands for Sender Policy Framework, is an email security system, that is designed to confirm if an e-mail message was sent by a certified server. Employing SPF protection for a domain will stop the forging of email addresses created with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain generates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP addresses of the servers which are allowed to send emails from mailboxes under the domain. Once this record propagates globally, it will exist on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. When an email message is sent, the first DNS server it uses checks whether it originates from an authorized server. If it does, it is forwarded to the destination address, yet when it doesn't come from a server indexed in the SPF record for the domain, it's rejected. Thus nobody will be able to mask an email address and make it look as if you are distributing spam. This method is also called email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

When you host your domains in a cloud website hosting account with us and we manage the e-mails for them, you are able to activate SPF protection for any of them with a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is available in a separate section where you're able to view which domains are already secured. For those that are not, you will be able to enable the SPF protection option and set up a variety of things at the same time - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your mailboxes, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, and to create a rule that emails can be sent only if your domain names include our MX records. The last solution is the most secure one, and you can use it when we handle the e-mails for your domains and you're not using a different e-mail provider. The new records will propagate within 1 day and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in a message using your addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as a part of the regular collection of services that you'll receive with this kind of web hosting. Activating the protection involves only a couple of easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel, so that even in case you haven't employed such a function before, you will not have any problems. Using an exceptionally easy to work with interface, you will just have to insert the details of the mail server which will be certified to send out messages from your email addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). The moment the newly generated record propagates, nobody will be able to fake any e-mail for that particular domain and send out messages from a server other than the one you have entered. This doesn't necessarily have to be our mail server, still if we manage your emails, you'll be able to allow one more 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 technical support team can help you 24/7 if you have any kind of questions related to this service.