# Clarification for ending support for expiration notification emails

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-for-ending-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/236056>\
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**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-for-ending-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/236056 "2025-04-07T09:24:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirkiris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/kirkiris/32/86808_2.png) [@kirkiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/kirkiris)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-for-ending-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/236056/1 "2025-04-07T09:24:58Z")

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Hello,

Reaching out regarding the end of support for expiration notification emails.

From the [documentation](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/expiration-emails) it is clear that notifications are sent out on a best effort, 20 days and 7 days before a certificate expires.

While I am exploring some options for certificate expiration notifications, I wanted to clarify if Let's Encrypt sends a notification when a certificate has already expired (haven't had any issues with expired certificates so far, so I'm not really sure) and if so, will this be deprecated too?

Regards,  
Theodore

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**Author:** ![orangepizza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/orangepizza/32/19597_2.png) [@orangepizza](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/orangepizza)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-for-ending-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/236056/2 "2025-04-07T09:34:02Z")

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> **[Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails](https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/ending-expiration-emails/)**
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> 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...

> 1. 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.

I guess not, as they are want to abandon email address - issuance record

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**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-for-ending-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/236056/3 "2025-04-07T09:42:52Z")

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> [@kirkiris](#):
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> if Let's Encrypt sends a notification when a certificate has already expired

Let's Encrypt has never send emails about already expired certificates.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-for-ending-support-for-expiration-notification-emails/236056/4 "2025-05-07T09:43:21Z")

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