.TH disroot-gotcha 7
.SH NAME
disroot-gotcha \- Disroot Custom Domain Email Gotcha: Do Not Change the Settings!
.SH AUTHOR
Artyom Bologov
.SH SYNOPSIS
I’m a happy Disroot custom domain email user now! Here’s a small tip that helped me set things up after linking.
.SH TEXT

.P
I finally switched to Disroot as my mail provider.
Freeing myself from the “Private” Email by Namecheap.
The whole process was somewhat chaotic, but I don’t regret it.
Now my email is managed by an ethical privacy-conscious group of volunteers.
What else can one dream of?

.P
One thing that wasn’t immediately obvious, though:
How do I use my new email?

.P
The onboarding message after domain linking is quite concise.
I’ve already said about it to Disroot people, and they will likely fix it.
But I had no luxury of detailed instructions and thus I want to help you.
So here goes my only advice:
Don’t change the settings.

.P
In case you already have a Disroot email—you likely do, because how else would you request domain linking?—your email client is set up to connect to Disroot IMAP/SMTP servers.
These settings allow you to get and send emails at/from an address like \fBxxx@disroot.org\fP.
The only thing that changes after domain linking is your email address.
In my case, I just set my email client address to \fBxxx@aartaka.me\fP, without changing any other settings.
And now I can send and receive emails from my own domain—thanks again to Disroot people!


.P
P.S. Here’s Emacs (Gnus, in particular) config snippet that does the magic:

.P
.in +4n
.EX
(setq user-mail-address    "xxx@aartaka.me" ;; Used to be "xxx@disroot.org"
      user-full-name       "Artyom Bologov"
      smtpmail-smtp-server "disroot.org"
      send-mail-function   'smtpmail-send-it
      smtpmail-smtp-service 587
      gnus-select-method '(nnimap "disroot.org"))
.EE
.in
.P
— My Emacs/Gnus disroot email configuration

.P
Implying that you have password and \fBxxx@disroot.org\fP username as server credentials.


.SH COPYRIGHT

.UR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
CC-BY 4.0
.UE
 2022-2026 by Artyom Bologov (aartaka,)

.UR https://codeberg.org/aartaka/pages/commit/a91befa
with one commit remixing Claude-generated code
.UE
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Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employers; future, past and present.