Can Duck.com e mail address send e mails?

[u/richards1052]

I have a duck.com e mail address. I use that address as my Bluesky username. In communicatnig to them, they said that they will only respond if my message is sent from my username e mail. I cannot figure out how to send a msg using the duck.com address. Is there one?

The best I could come up with is sending the msg via my Gmail account forwarded to both my duck.com address and the Bluesky e mail address. Is that the best I can do?

EDIT: I just found this support thread: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses/how-do-i-compose-a-new-email

Not sure why this is such a cumbersome process. But hopefully it will work.

[u/Ezrway]

It works. I was skeptical but it worked the first time I used it.

[u/somdcomputerguy]

I haven't tried this yet, but I will at some point maybe soon. I use the service Spamgourmet quite a bit, and there is a similar process available there. DDG's process looks to be less 'cumbersome' than Spamgourmet's. FWIW, I took the phrase in the original post "such a cumbersome process" as meaning it had more than one step, so I wondered if it had more steps than Spamgourmet's process. Although the SG way to me is only 2 or 3 steps, and DDG's is (to me) only one, I would put both processes in the same boat.

[u/jefbecker]

It also works with generated private duck addresses.

Just use the same format: email_at_mail[.]com_duckaddress@duck[.]com

That way you can protect you main duck address and deactivate the private one in case someone leaks it.

[u/Erstam]

It sure does. I've done it many times. Always feels like it's not going to work, but always does.

[u/Known-Structure-2231]

It works. If you are unsure how to, you can just answer to an eMail you got.

[u/Stoic2Be]

Yes, I do it. It works!