Assuming you would like to read the email addies into an array via a filehandle, you could always use rand. Like this : - 

srand;   # initialize random UPDATE : This is only needed for earlier 
+versions of Perl, thanks to Albannach for telling me :)

$random_email_address = $email [rand @email]; #assuming your array of 
+email addresses is named @email

print $random_email_address;

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This will do the random bit for you, in a very simple, low-level way. I'm sure someone will post some hardcore code that randomises via regex and sorts out your size issues with some DB stuff etc...

Just my two cents...

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