If you now make a payment online with 34SP.com you will notice we have adopted the 3DSecure system. Specifically the Verified by Visa (VbV) and MasterCard SecureCode (SecureCode) systems for the respective cards. What are they?

VbV and SecureCode are new security programmes to enhance your protection when shopping online. The systems allow you to create a secret password for each of your cards. The password is then required whenever you make a purchase online. The password is never stored by the merchant. Only your card issuer ever stores the password information securely.

If you have not registered for VbV or SecureCode don’t worry. The next time you make a purchase online (through a 3Dsecure enabled merchant) you will be prompted to provide your details and create your password. The details you enter will be then submitted to your card issuer securely. You only need to do this once for each card you use.

If you make purchases online regularly you will see most merchants beginning to adopt this system. Should you have any questions regarding this process please contact us on 0161 200 1855 or email us at account@34sp.com.

Are you tired of receiving bounce emails and junk messages from your domain, which you didn’t send? SPF or “Sender Policy Framework” is a tool can help the situation.Most spam email is delivered using a ‘spoofed’ reply address. This means that spam is typically sent using an active domain name in the reply address. The domain name used may be yours; being linked to the delivery of spam is a clearly undesirable situation and your domain may lose credibility with certain mail providers as a result.

SPF is a tool can help to reduce this nuisance. We add a simple DNS record to your account as follows:

“v=spf1 a mx a:smtp.34sp.com -all”

This DNS record specifies the valid mailservers for your domain name. Receiving mail servers are thus able to verify whether the authentic mail server for your domain was used to send the email or not. Using this technique spam email delivered using spoofed reply addresses can be identified by SPF compatible mail servers.

If you would like SPF enabling on your account please email us help@34sp.com (be sure to include your domain name in the email). Please note that with SPF enabled you must use your 34SP.com mail service to send email (using either our SMTP service or webmail) for your domain.

Please note: Adding an SPF record will prevent others spamming using your email address as the sender, If you wish to stop spam arriving to your mailbox however we recommend greylisting or our spam filtering service.

For more information on SPF see http://www.openspf.org