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If you have 1000, it might be better to just set up a custom domain and just use a wildcard alias.

This is what I do, and my usage is very similar pattern to the posted project.

Everything gets {service}@{type}.mydomain.com, so, for example, twitter@social.mydomain.com. I really only use the subdomain for some automated tagging, but it's come in handy.

I used to accept *@mydomain, until spammers started sending spam to completely random addresses. Suddenly I received hundreds of copies of every spam mail, addressed to random combinations of characters @mydomain.

Yeah but that's obviously guessable. Twitter_hrejb@example.com can be traced back to a Twitter DB leak, because otherwise there's no way to guess the "hrejb".

> Yeah but that's obviously guessable. Twitter_hrejb@example.com can be traced back to a Twitter DB leak, because otherwise there's no way to guess the "

Thats exactly what is do. A random combination of three after the service. Works perfectly

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