Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, which is designed to stop the so-called e-mail spoofing where an e-mail message is sent from one email address, but to appear as being sent from a different one, generally with the idea to fraud the recipient someway. When SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a unique record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all DNS servers globally get it. The record includes all the e-mail servers that are allowed to send authentic messages from an email address within the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the first DNS server it encounters verifies the SPF record and in case its sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the target destination. When, however, the sending server is not included in the SPF record for the given domain, the email message won't be sent and it will be discarded. Whenever you employ this solution, it'll prevent third parties from sending spam messages which seem to have been sent from you.
SPF Protection in Website Hosting
If you host your domain names in a website hosting account with us and we manage the e-mails for them, you are able to activate SPF protection for them with several clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in a section of its own where you can view which domain names are already protected. For those that are not, you can activate the SPF protection option and set up a variety of things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your e-mails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the servers, as well as to create a rule that emails can be sent only when your domains include our MX records. The aforementioned solution is the most secure one, but you can use it in the event that we take care of the email addresses for your domains and you are not using a different e-mail supplier. The newly created records will be activated within 1 day and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in an email by using your email addresses.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The SPF protection feature is featured with all semi-dedicated packages, so in case you host your domains in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you can use this service effortlessly for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, has a quite easy to work with interface, so you don't need to be proficient in the use of computers to secure your emails. You'll only have to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you would like to be permitted to send emails from your addresses and right after that the updated record will be active for the domain name that you have selected. As an additional option, we'll also give you the ability to restrict the outgoing e-mail messages and protect your mailboxes even further by permitting e-mail messages to be sent only if the domain name involved contains our MX records i.e. the emails for the domain name need to be handled by us and not by another supplier. By doing this you will enjoy even better control and there will not be a chance for somebody to fake your email addresses for harmful intentions.