SPF, which means Sender Policy Framework, is an e-mail safety system, which is designed to validate whether an e-mail message is sent by an official server. Using SPF protection for a domain name will prevent the faking of email addresses generated with the domain. In layman's terms: enabling this feature for a domain name creates a specific record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which includes the IP addresses of the servers which are permitted to send emails from mailboxes under the domain. Once this record propagates worldwide, it will exist on all DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. Every time a new email message is sent, the first DNS server it goes through verifies whether it originates from an accredited server. In the event it does, it's sent to the destination address, yet if it doesn't originate from a server indexed in the SPF record for the domain, it's rejected. In this way nobody will mask an e-mail address to make it appear as if you're e-mailing spam messages. This technique is also known as email spoofing.
SPF Protection in Hosting
SPF protection can be enabled for every domain hosted in a hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a few mouse-clicks. The function is available in the Emails section of our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable it is to choose one of your domains from a drop-down menu and to enter the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the mail servers that will be permitted to send messages from your emails. As an additional option you can even restrict the emails to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, i.e. if our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party supplier. This feature 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 emails for the domain name are managed in another place. Regardless, the SPF protection service will keep your emails protected from being used for spam or scam purposes.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The SPF protection feature is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting, so when you host your domain names in an account on our cloud web hosting platform, you will be able to use the service effortlessly for all of your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a really easy to work with interface, therefore you don't have to be tech-savvy in order to protected your email 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 e-mails from your addresses and immediately after that the updated record will be activated for the domain that you have picked. As an additional option, we will also give you the ability to restrict your outgoing email messages and secure your mailboxes even better by allowing emails to be sent only when the domain involved features our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain name have to be handled by us and not by some other company. By doing this you'll enjoy even better control and there will not be any chances for any person to forge your e-mail addresses for harmful intentions.