I'm receiving basically dozens, even hundreds, of expiration emails for domains that I have absolutely no connection with in any way. I get anywhere from 3-12 per day! Does anyone know why this is happening? Here's just a quick example of what's been hitting my inbox this way.
@cdolson Welcome to this forum.
One guess is that someone used your email address when creating those certificates.
I checked the first 3 Lets Encrypt emails you show and each domain name had a certificate issued in August so are now renewing. So, the email looks legit in the sense that it is not randomly made up spam.
If you do not use Lets Encrypt at all you could use the unsubscribe option on the bottom of an email. This will prevent seeing any emails from Lets Encrypt for a year. But, also no legit ones if you use Lets Encrypt. See here:
For reference, I used the site crt.sh to check the history of the certificates for the names you showed.
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Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community, Chris 
It's quite possible that your hosting provider may have supplied your email address in association with a Let's Encrypt ACME account for which certificates have been issued for many hosted domain names.
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Good point about hosting but couldn't it be "some hosting provider"? Like with an accidental typo of email address?
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I've used this email for Let's Encrypt with Digital Ocean and Cloudron configs. It all started October 2nd, 2021. The email address in question colson at nabx dot com Very strange!!
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The bottom hostnames are hosted by DigitalOcean and (most of) the top domains are non-existent any longer it seems. (Makes sense that the certificates would be expiring for those hostnames.)
Possibly a DigitalOcean issue?
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I also saw Cloudflare and googleusercontent among the first few so not exclusively DigitalOcean
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@lestaff Any suggestions here? No obvious pattern. Started about a week or so after the fixes to the expiry emailing problems in late Sept. This not apparently related to those issues either.
We are stumped 
Thanks
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Well, I've seen similar reports here in the past. I think usually it's because there's a large-scale integrator that doesn't really understand what the ACME account email address is used for and they end up having many customers' domains under one account, which happens to have one of the customer's emails (like, whichever customer happened to have the first cert issued or the most recent cert issued or something like that). The integration guide tries to be clear about who the subscriber is supposed to be, but I think that not everybody who needs to do so actually reads it or understands it.
@cdolson, have you always configured your own certificates for your own VMs with something like certbot, or have you ever had a hosting provider just creating the certificate for you using their own system?
Unless this is related somehow to the problems they had with expiration notices a few months ago. But I tend to doubt it.
For reference, some past threads with some similar issues:
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So basically, it seems, new certificates are being issued under the first found (or created) LE account.
Unfortunately for you (probably for being the first in that line) you are now receiving all this noise.
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Yeah, it stinks. Is there any way to track the guilty party
Could LE start putting the requester IP in the expiry email to help track down such cases? At least it might be a clue. As @petercooperjr shows this is not the first one.
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In this case, the IP would likely be that very same shared host.
The "culprit" is the ACME client (OR cPanel implementation).
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yeah, but which one exactly? Would be helpful to know - wouldn't it?
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We're looking into it! But no, we will not include the requester's IP address in these emails.
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@cdolson We've confirmed that there is an Subscriber account with your email address set in the contact field which has issued approximately 500 certificates for a wide variety of identifiers (domain names), starting in mid-August of this year.
I personally suggest using the "unsubscribe" link to suppress these emails. Unfortunately sometimes other subscribers make typos.
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Another interesting thing: Cloudron appears to have its own user-agent, acme-cloudron. I haven't seen that one before. That suggests they may have their own ACME client, which could be doing surprising things.
Could you post in the Cloudron support forums (https://forum.cloudron.io/) describing your problem and see if they can shed any light on it?
When you use Cloudron, is it on a VPS fully dedicated to you, or are you using a VPS that is shared with other people?
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Based on the ~500 certificates... my money is on a very very shared system.
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An update: I checked our API logs, and there are two accounts using the email address you shared. One of them has a lot of different issuances, and also has a lot of requests to update the account with a new email address. All those email addresses seem unrelated. Also, that one account has requests from a variety of IP addresses.
I suspect the Cloudron images may have a bug where either they commonly generate the same account key pair (which could result in unrelated instances acting as the same account), or where they ship with an already registered ACME account, which winds up shared by many users. I started a Cloudron instance of my own, but wasn't able to reproduce. But it's possible that only some VMs have this issue, or that an older VM image had the problem and it has since been fixed.
@cdolson, can you please report the issue to Cloudron support? If that turns out to be the case, Cloudron should remediate by deactivating the account.
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Thanks @aarongable, done! Unfortunately that means I won't get notifications for the few certificates I generated with that email address. No matter, I'll figure it out.
@jsha, I've just started a thread in their support forum linking here with a brief description and a screenshot of your last post.
Also, regarding your VPS question, I primarily had spun up dedicated Cloudron instances on DigitalOcean and had not shared those installs with any other users.
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