If you'd like to use [Double Puppeting](https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-telegram/wiki/Authentication#replacing-telegram-accounts-matrix-puppet-with-matrix-account) (hint: you most likely do), you have 2 ways of going about it.
If you'd like to use [Double Puppeting](https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/general/double-puppeting.html) (hint: you most likely do), you have 2 ways of going about it.
### Method 1: automatically, by enabling Shared Secret Auth
You then need to start a chat with `@telegrambot:YOUR_DOMAIN` (where `YOUR_DOMAIN` is your base domain, not the `matrix.` domain).
If you want to use the relay-bot feature ([relay bot documentation](https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-telegram/wiki/Relay-bot)), which allows anonymous user to chat with telegram users, use the following additional playbook configuration:
If you want to use the relay-bot feature ([relay bot documentation](https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/python/telegram/relay-bot.html)), which allows anonymous user to chat with telegram users, use the following additional playbook configuration: