SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a verification system that aims at stopping the so-called e-mail faking. Essentially, this means sending some message from one email address and making it seem to be sent from a different one with the objective to scam in some manner the person opening it. In the event that the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record that includes all the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses within the domain is created. The record is placed on all DNS servers that route the Internet traffic internationally, therefore they all can identify if an e-mail message comes from a legitimate server or not. The verification is done at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, while in the second it's discarded and it never reaches the supposed recipient. Employing SPF records for your domain names will prevent all unauthorized people from using your email addresses for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Website Hosting

If you host your domains in a website hosting account on our end and we manage the e-mails for them, you'll be able to enable SPF protection for any of them with several clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The service can be found in a section of its own where you'll be able to see which domain names are already protected. For the ones that are not, you'll be able to activate the SPF protection solution and configure a variety of things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your emails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of these servers, and to set a rule that messages can be sent only if your domain names have our MX records. The last solution is the most secure one, and you can use it in the event that we take care of the e-mail addresses for your domain names and you're not using some other e-mail provider. The new records will be activated within 24 hours and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in a message with your e-mail addresses.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you can secure your email addresses by activating the SPF protection service for any domain name in the account with only a few clicks. This is done through the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous practical experience with such things, you will not have any kind of troubles to activate the protection. The only things that you'll need to do will be to choose a domain name from a drop-down list and then type the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. Once the new record propagates, messages from your emails will be sent around the world only if they were sent from that particular server. In case your email addresses are handled by us and not by some third-party provider, you'll also be able to use an option for e-mail messages to be sent only when the domain has our MX records and the latter would be the safest option. When you have any kind of questions about thisfunction, you can get in touch with our support team 24/7.