Let's Encrypt Is Ending Expiration Notice Emails

Let's Encrypt will stop sending expiration notice emails for its free HTTPS certificates starting June 4, 2025. From the report: Let's Encrypt is ending automated emails for four stated reasons, and all of them are pretty sensible. For one thing, lots of customers have been able to automate their certificate renewal. For another, providing the expiration notices costs 'tens of thousands of dollars per year' and adds complexity to the nonprofit's infrastructure as they are looking to add new and more useful services.

If those were not enough, there is this particularly notable reason: 'Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses connected to issuance records. As an organization that values privacy, removing this requirement is important to us.' Let's Encrypt recommends using Red Sift Certificates Lite to monitor certificate expirations, a service that is free for up to 250 certificates. The service also points to other options, including Datadog SSL monitoring and TrackSSL.

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