I successfully used certbot delete to delete certain certificates that I had used (for subdomains, I found out I can use a wildcard certificate instead, which I replaced all certs in nginx configurations with). But I'm still getting e-mail notifications for expiring certs. Why is that?

Deleting is a thing that you do on your own system. (And if you no longer need the certificates, is a right thing to do.) But there are still plenty of auditing and confirming that you haven't told Let's Encrypt that the keys are compromised and whatnot, so the certificates still "exist", in the se…

Why am I getting expiration notification for deleted certificates?

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griffin November 24, 2021, 7:24pm 9

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Why am I getting expiration notification for deleted certificates?

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