Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, which is intended to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message can be sent from one email, but to look as being sent from a different one, typically with the purpose to fraud the recipient someway. When SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, a specific record is created for it in the Domain Name System and all of the DNS servers globally have it. The record contains all mail servers that are allowed to send authentic messages from an email address part of the domain. When a message is sent, the first DNS server it encounters verifies the SPF record and when its sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the target receiver. If, however, the sending server is not present in the SPF record for the given domain, the e-mail message will not be submitted and it'll be discarded. When you employ this solution, it will stop third parties from sending spam e-mails which look as if they have been sent by you.
SPF Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you host your domains in a shared website hosting account on our end and we manage the e-mails for them, you'll be able to activate SPF protection for them with a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is available in its own section where you'll be able to see which domains are currently protected. For the ones that are not, you will be able to enable the SPF protection solution and set up various things during this process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are allowed to send messages from your mailboxes, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of these servers, and to create a rule that email messages can be sent only if your domain names use our MX records. The last mentioned option is the most secure one, but you can use it if we handle the e-mails for your domain names and you are not using another e-mail service provider. The newly created records will propagate within a day and nobody will be able to fake the FROM field in an email by using your email addresses.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your domains in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to benefit from the SPF protection feature as part of the conventional group of services that you'll get with this kind of web hosting. Activating the protection involves only a couple of simple steps within the Hepsia Control Panel, so even in the event that you haven't employed this type of function before, you will not have any type of issues. Through a very easy to work with interface, you will simply have to enter the details of the mail server that will be permitted to send out messages from your addresses - its hostname (mail.server.com) and IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). As soon as the newly made record propagates, nobody will be able to fake any e-mail address for that particular domain and send e-mails from a server other than the one you have typed in. This does not necessarily have to be our mail server, but when we handle your emails, you can allow an extra level of security by selecting an option that emails can be send out from addresses @your-domain.com only in the event that the domain employs our MX records. Our tech support crew will be able to help you 24/7 in case you have any questions related to this service.