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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

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181 points zdw | 6 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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weird-eye-issue ◴[30 Jun 25 10:27 UTC] No.44421562[source]▶
A company like Postmark should have just given them a free account on the condition they mentioned them at the bottom of emails or something

It's a valuable service for the average person to get these emails without having to set up separate monitoring

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1. bravesoul2 ◴[30 Jun 25 11:11 UTC] No.44421824[source]▶
At least there is this:

> For those who would like to continue receiving expiration notifications, we recommend using a third party service such as Red Sift Certificates Lite (formerly Hardenize). Red Sift’s monitoring service providing expiration emails is free of charge for up to 250 certificates. More monitoring options can be found here.

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2. jojobas ◴[30 Jun 25 12:27 UTC] No.44422431[source]▶
They could just include a local notifier in their scripts, would probably satisfy the majority of users.
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3. kevincox ◴[30 Jun 25 12:29 UTC] No.44422446[source]▶
I don't think this is nearly as effective of a solution. It stops working if the script is crashing before hitting the notification, it doesn't work if you break your email setup (which for an email that almost never sends is likely to go unnoticed forever) it also fails if you accidentally stop running a script or remove the certificate from your config entirely.
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4. jojobas ◴[30 Jun 25 23:40 UTC] No.44429098{3}[source]▶
You could have a weekly canary email as well.
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5. weird-eye-issue ◴[01 Jul 25 04:05 UTC] No.44430505{4}[source]▶
Yeah and people could just use rsync instead of Dropbox
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6. jojobas ◴[02 Jul 25 01:27 UTC] No.44439487{5}[source]▶
Of course, whenever it's possible.