SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a verification system that aims at protecting against the so-called email counterfeiting. In simple terms, this indicates sending a message from one e-mail address and making it seem to be sent from a different one with the idea to scam in some manner the person opening it. In the event that the SPF protection is active for a domain name, a record that contains all the mail servers authorized to send messages with addresses within the domain is made. The record is saved on all the DNS servers that direct the web traffic around the world, so that they all can recognize whether an email message originates from an authentic server or not. The check is conducted at the first server where the email goes through and in the first case the e-mail message is forwarded, while in the second one it is discarded and it never gets to the supposed recipient. Employing SPF records for your domain names will stop any unauthorized people from using your email addresses for malicious objectives.
SPF Protection in Hosting
SPF protection can be enabled for any domain name hosted in a hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a couple of clicks. The feature is accessible in the Emails section of our leading-edge Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to activate it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down list and then enter the hostnames plus the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be certified to send emails from your emails. As an additional option you can also restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain only when it has our MX records, i.e. when our servers manage the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This feature will give you the best degree of protection, but it is not applicable in case only your site is on our servers while the emails for the domain name are handled somewhere else. Either way, our SPF protection service will keep your email addresses risk-free from being used for spam and/or scam purposes.