SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is an authentication system that is aimed at preventing the so-called email faking. Essentially, this means sending some message from one e-mail and making it look like it’s sent from another one with the idea to scam in some manner the person opening it. In the event that the SPF protection is activated for a domain name, a record that contains all of the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses under the domain is made. The record is saved on all the DNS servers that route the web traffic across the globe, so they all will identify whether an e-mail message originates from a trustworthy server or not. The verification is done at the first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, and in the second one it is removed and it never reaches the intended recipient. Using SPF records for your domain names will stop all unauthorized people from making use of your email addresses for harmful purposes.

SPF Protection in Cloud Hosting

SPF protection can be activated for any domain hosted in a cloud hosting account on our cloud platform with just a couple of mouse-clicks. The function can be found in the Emails section of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down menu and enter the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers which will be permitted to send emails from your email addresses. As an added option you can even restrict the messages to be sent from your domain name only when it has our MX records, i.e. when our servers handle the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This feature gives you the best standard of security, but it's not applicable in case only your web site is on our servers while your e-mail addresses for the domain are taken care of in a different place. In either case, the SPF protection service will keep your emails risk-free from being used for spam and scam purposes.