Except then spammers who send to [huge list of words]@your-domain.com all go to your inbox. It's much safer to use a regex pattern or generate forwarding emails ad hoc.
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Yep, I've been doing this for nearly a decade. This in combination with Gmail's spam filter works just fine. I have caught quite a few emails to my parents from people who can't spell their (simple) email address.
NOTE: a few bits of info here, although someone mentioning ipchains means their comment is from an older time of course:
- use ipset for large sets of blocked IP addresses. That's what it's for, and it works well without slowdown, even on massive sets
- http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/aggregated
This is a nice list of IP addresses broken down by region. Handy do download weekly, or monthly, and then dump into ipset.
- firehol is also a nice list to use, eg:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ktsaou/blocklist-ipsets/ma...