Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails
letsencrypt.org
Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us. We will be ending this service on June 4, 2025. The decision to end this service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our subscribers have been able to put reliable automation into place for certificate renewal. Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses connected to issuance records.

I think it’s a good idea, everyone should be automating this anyway.

  • KokeshEnglish
    6•1 month ago

    I just wish I wouldn’t have to renew certs so often.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•1 month ago

        Tell that to all the embedded device manufacturers… switches, appliances, nas, etc.

        There’s a whole load of things that will have a massive administrative burden if the frequency is dropped.

      • KokeshEnglish
        6•1 month ago

        My server does it automatically, but I have few services I can’t make to read the certs from server storage, so I have to manually copy cert content. Especially Adguard Home for some reason refuses to read my certs.

        • Björn TantauEnglish
          11•1 month ago

          Have the same problem. But symlinks or copying them via cron solved it for me.

          • KokeshEnglish
            4•1 month ago

            Yes! yes | cp -Lrf /etc/letsencrypt/live/…domain…/*.pem /var/snap/adguard-home/current

        • @forbiddenlakeEnglish
          5•1 month ago

          You could use a reverse proxy to terminate tls, and take the tls off of ad guard itself.

      • KokeshEnglish
        0•1 month ago

        Fullchain.pem works. Privkey doesn’t. I’ve tried chmod 777 (yes, I know, just testing) and still can’t access the file.

        • IllecorsEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          Whole path has to be accessible, not just the file itself. All dirs above the file need to have the executable bit set that affects the user accessing the file.

          • KokeshEnglish
            1•1 month ago

            I know, but for some reason Adguard can read the fullchain, not privkey. Now it works.