SPF, which is an abbreviation for Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that aims at stopping the so-called e-mail counterfeiting. In simple terms, this means sending a message from one email and making it seem to be sent from another with the objective to scam in some way the person receiving it. When the SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a record that contains all the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses part of the domain is created. The record is kept on all the DNS servers that route the web traffic around the world, so that they all can recognize if an email message comes from an authentic server or not. The verification is done at the first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the message is forwarded, and in the second it is removed and it never reaches the supposed recipient. Employing SPF records for your domains will prevent any unauthorized people from making use of your email addresses for malicious objectives.
SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting
When you host your domain names in a cloud hosting account on our end and we handle the e-mails for them, you are able to activate SPF protection for all of them with a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is accessible in a section of its own where you will be able to view which domain names are currently protected. For the ones that are not, you can activate the SPF protection solution and configure various things in the process - the hostnames of the mail servers that are permitted to send messages from your addresses, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of these servers, and to create a rule that emails can be sent only when your domains have our MX records. The last mentioned option is the most secure one, and you can use it in the event that we handle the email addresses for your domains and you're not using a different email supplier. The new records will be activated within 24 hours and nobody will be able to forge the FROM field in an email using your addresses.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The SPF protection attribute is provided with all of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, so in case you host your domain names in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you can activate this particular service easily for any of your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a rather intuitive interface, so you will not need to be proficient in the use of computers in order to secure your e-mail addresses. You will simply need to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you'd like to be certified to send out emails from your addresses and immediately after that the new record will be activated for the domain that you've picked. As an additional option, we will also allow you to control the outgoing emails and secure your mailboxes even further by permitting e-mail messages to be sent only when the domain name in question contains our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain name have to be taken care of here and not by a different company. By doing so you'll enjoy even superior control and there won't be any chance for anybody to forge your e-mails for malicious intentions.