{"id":1170,"date":"2020-10-26T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/10\/26\/4570278-how-to-manage-spf-records-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:09:30","slug":"4570278-how-to-manage-spf-records-on-cpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4570278-how-to-manage-spf-records-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage SPF Records on cPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>SPF<\/b> record or <b>Sender Policy Framework<\/b> is a <b>TXT record<\/b> that works as a security mechanism that <b>prevents other people from sending emails on your behalf<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">You can easily enable the SPF record on cPanel by going to<b> Email Deliverability,<\/b> located in the <b>Email<\/b> section:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/07\/1fb0d940-3fcb-4d02-9e81-162cab4a1be7.jpg\" alt=\"The cPanel Email Deliverability option\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, click on the <b>Manage<\/b> button for the domain you wish to enable the SPF record for: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/07\/720230d0-9aa5-4093-b2a7-0816d3b3a16c.jpg\" alt=\"The domain manage option for email deliverability\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you want to set a default SPF record, scroll down to<b> Suggested SPF Record <\/b>and click on the <b>Customize <\/b>button:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/07\/8365dd36-b2fd-48e9-9b98-f4ee083ab150.jpg\" alt=\"The suggested SPF record and how to customize it\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Then scroll down to the <b>Additional settings<\/b> section and include the following two new entries by clicking on <b>Add A new &ldquo;+include&rdquo; item<\/b>:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">spf.mx.hostinger.com<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">relay.mailchannels.net<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/07\/a0992c98-459e-41f1-a661-6e20b297bc43.jpg\" alt=\"How to Add new SPF records\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once done, scroll all the way down and click on <b>Install a customized SPF record<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/07\/eefd3167-75be-4016-896d-d737d0bc0744.jpg\" alt=\"The Install a Customized SPF Record button\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you would like to add <b>custom SPF records<\/b> from your current email provider, you can do so by <b><a href=\"\/support\/4469063-how-to-add-and-remove-txt-records-in-cpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">editing your domain&rsquo;s TXT records<\/a><\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After SPF is enabled or added, a <b>new TXT record <\/b>will appear in your DNS Zone. After up to <b>24 hours, <\/b>once <b><a href=\"\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">propagation<\/a> <\/b>is completed, the SPF record will be fully operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding an SPF record on cPanel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dns-cpanel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4570278-how-to-manage-spf-records-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/4570278-como-administrar-los-registros-spf-en-cpanel-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4570278-comment-gerer-les-enregistrements-spf-sur-cpanel-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4570278-bagaimana-cara-mengatur-spf-record-di-cpanel-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4570278-como-gerenciar-registros-spf-no-cpanel-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}