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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:
(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"))
Implying that you have password and xxx@disroot.org username as server credentials.
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