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I have the same pattern but added a 6 character hexadecimal postfix based on a hash.

facebook-com-a2bdc0@domain.com

This makes it less trivial to guess the other domains. (although you could bruteforce the entire range)

This seems like it might be frustrating to manage. Instead of one or two memorable addresses, you now have two hundred hard-to-memorize ones.

It also might get awkward at the cash register :)

How often do you give your email at a cash register?

It's sometimes a bit of a hassle, but I have to python script that generates and configures it for me. And in some cases I fallback to <bricks-and-mortar-shop>@domain.com Because that's much easier to spell out to a cashier.

After it's configured, my password manager stores the email too so that's not a problem

I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite.

I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+routing and regexes.

But you can, sort of. If your GSuite mail is user@domain.com, you could use user+facebook@domain.com. Then you can create what ever filtering you want to GSuite.

The problem I have, is to remember what I used for each service :/ . So I really liked the idea of `whichmail`.

A lot of services won't accept an email with a plus sign as a valid email address. Part of the issue is how many companies want an email address to sign up for something. It is much easier to track your accounts using a password management application, as opposed to giving everyone your email address and phone number.

I have even seen emails rejected when using a simple dash, or because it was not hosted by a well-known mail service provider, and even because "your email should be of the form <name>.<surname>@<website>" (yes, with a dot, ironically).

At that point I gave up, and I use a single Gmail account for all the services that I don't use very frequently (also because it's not always easy to send mail from self-hosted mailservers, some destinations simply refuse any mail that is not from Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail).

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