LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

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

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.

They could just include a local notifier in their scripts, would probably satisfy the majority of users.

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.

You could have a weekly canary email as well.

Yeah and people could just use rsync instead of Dropbox