SPF, which is an acronym for Sender Policy Framework, is an email protection system, that is used to confirm whether an e-mail message was sent by a certified server. Using SPF protection for a domain will stop the faking of emails made with the domain. In simple words: activating this feature for a domain name generates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) which includes the IP addresses of the servers which are permitted to send email messages from mail boxes using the domain. When this record propagates worldwide, it exists on all DNS servers that direct the Internet traffic. When some email message is sent, the initial DNS server it uses tests whether it originates from an authorized server. When it does, it's forwarded to the destination address, however when it doesn't come from a server listed in the SPF record for the domain, it's rejected. Thus nobody can mask an email address and make it appear as if you're e-mailing spam messages. This approach is also referred to as email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for each domain hosted in a cloud website hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with just a few clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to use it is to choose one of your domains from a drop-down menu and then type in the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be approved to send emails from your email addresses. As an additional option you may also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, in other words if our servers handle the emails for it, not a third-party supplier. This solution gives you the highest level of security, but it is not applicable when only your site is on our servers while the email addresses for the domain are handled in another place. Either way, our SPF protection service will keep your emails risk-free from being used for spam or scam purposes.