SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a validation system that is aimed at blocking the so-called email counterfeiting. Essentially, this indicates sending a message from one email address and making it look like it’s sent from another one with the objective to scam in some manner the person receiving it. In case the SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a record which has all mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses in the domain is created. The record is kept on all DNS servers that direct the web traffic all over the world, thus they all will recognize whether an e-mail message originates from a valid server or not. The verification is performed at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the e-mail message is forwarded, while in the second one it is discarded and it never reaches its intended recipient. Applying SPF records for your domains will stop all unwanted people from using your emails for harmful purposes.

SPF Protection in Web Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for every domain name hosted in a web hosting account on our cloud platform with only a few mouse-clicks. The feature is available in the Emails section of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down menu and then type in the hostnames and the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers which will be authorized to send email messages from your emails. As an additional option you may also restrict the emails to be sent from your domain name only if it includes our MX records, in other words if our servers manage the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution will provide you with the best standard of safety, but it's not applicable when only your web site is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain are handled somewhere else. Regardless, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses secure from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.