# 📎 Disroot Custom Domain Email Gotcha: Do Not Change the Settings! By Artyom Bologov 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 `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 `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: =================================== elisp =================================== (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")) ==================== My Emacs/Gnus disroot email configuration ==================== Implying that you have password and `xxx@disroot.org` username as server credentials. Copyright 2022-2025 Artyom Bologov (aartaka). Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employers; future, past and present.