SPF, which is short for Sender Policy Framework, is an email protection system, that is employed to confirm whether an email message was sent by a certified server. Employing SPF protection for a domain name will prevent the counterfeiting of emails made with the domain. In simple words: enabling this attribute for a domain name makes a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP addresses of the servers that are allowed to send email messages from mail boxes under the domain. The moment this record propagates globally, it will exist on all DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. Any time a new email message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses checks if it comes from an approved server. If it does, it is forwarded to the destination address, but when it does not come from a server part of the SPF record for the particular domain, it's rejected. Thus nobody can mask an email address and make it look as if you're sending spam. This approach is also termed email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to activate the SPF protection service for your domain names with a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all our Linux cloud plans. This is done via the section with the very same name and you're able to allow the protection for each domain name hosted on our outstanding cloud platform. Using a very user-friendly interface, all you will need to enter is the hostname of the mail server that will be authorized to send messages from your emails and its IPv4 or IPv6 address. Of course, you're able to add several servers too, when needed. In case your email addresses are managed by us, you can also take advantage of an even more secure option by placing a restriction that messages can be sent only if your domain names feature our MX records. This solution cannot be applied in case your site is hosted with us, and the email addresses are with a third-party supplier. In either case, the SPF protection solution will really improve your web protection and prevent others from forging your email addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

The SPF protection feature is provided with all Linux semi-dedicated servers, so when you host your domain names in an account on our cloud website hosting platform, you are able to activate this particular service without difficulty for all your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a really easy to work with interface, therefore you will not need to be tech-savvy to protected your emails. You'll only need to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you would like to be permitted to send emails from your addresses and shortly after that the new record will be active for the domain name that you've picked. As an additional option, we'll also allow you to control your outgoing e-mail messages and protect your mailboxes even better by allowing messages to be sent only if the domain involved features our MX records i.e. the emails for the domain name should be handled here and not by a different company. By doing this you'll get even superior control and there won't be a chance for anyone to forge your e-mail addresses for harmful uses.