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\author{Artyom Bologov \href{mailto:disroot-gotcha@aartaka.me}{(email)}}
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\title{Disroot Custom Domain Email Gotcha: Do Not Change the Settings!}
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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?

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

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.

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 \verb|xxx@disroot.org|.
The only thing that changes after domain linking is your email address.
In my case, I just set my email client address to \verb|xxx@aartaka.me|, without changing any other settings.
And now I can send and receive emails from my own domain—thanks again to Disroot people!


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

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{verbatim}
(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"))
\end{verbatim}\caption{My Emacs/Gnus disroot email configuration}\end{figure}

Implying that you have password and \verb|xxx@disroot.org| username as server credentials.


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\href{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0}{CC-BY 4.0} 2022-2026 by Artyom Bologov (aartaka,)
\href{https://codeberg.org/aartaka/pages/commit/a91befa}{with one commit remixing Claude-generated code}.
Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employers; future, past and present.
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