SPF, which is short for Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail safety system, which is designed to confirm if an e-mail message was sent by an official server. Employing SPF protection for a particular domain name will stop the counterfeiting of emails made with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this attribute for a domain generates a particular record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which includes the IP addresses of the servers that are permitted to send e-mail messages from mail boxes using the domain. The moment this record propagates worldwide, it will exist on all DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. Any time some email message is sent, the initial DNS server it goes through verifies whether it originates from an approved server. When it does, it is forwarded to the destination address, yet if it does not originate from a server indexed in the SPF record for the domain, it's rejected. Thus nobody will be able to mask an email address then make it look as if you are e-mailing spam messages. This approach is also identified as email spoofing.
SPF Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
When you host your domains in a cloud website hosting account on our end and we manage the email addresses for them, you'll be able to activate SPF protection for them with a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in a separate section where you will be able to view which domain names are already protected. For those that are not, you will be able to enable the SPF protection solution and manage a lot of things at the same time - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your emails, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of these servers, as well as to set a rule that messages can be sent only when your domain names use our MX records. The last mentioned option is the most secure one, but you can use it if we manage the email addresses for your domains and you are not using some other e-mail service provider. The newly created records will be activated within 1 day and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in a message by using your email addresses.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, that is included with all our semi-dedicated servers, provides you with a very intuitive interface to activate the SPF security service for every domain name that you host inside your new account. Several 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 allowed to send out messages from your emails. If the e-mail messages are handled on our end and not by some other provider, you can increase the protection level even further and activate an option for the outgoing email messages to be sent only if your domain names feature our MX records. This option will give you increased control and it'll eliminate any chance of someone faking your e-mails with the purpose of spamming and scamming people. It is not applicable if only your site is hosted on our innovative cloud website hosting platform, while your e-mail addresses are handled by some other provider. If you are not sure what options to pick, our tech support team will assist you 24/7.