Silly question. In their post, Let’s Encrypt writes:
> Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year, money that we believe can be better spent on other aspects of our infrastructure.
These tens of thousands of dollars a year — do y’all think those costs came mostly from sending emails themselves? Said otherwise, how expensive is it these days to be a company that sends lots and lots of email? mastodon.social/@campuscodi/11…
Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi@mastodon.social)
Free Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt has ended its email notification service that warns users of expiring certificates. The company blamed this on rising costs. https://letsencrypt.org/2025/06/26/expiration-notification-service-has-ended/Mastodon
Scott Francis
in reply to Ricky Mondello • • •@campuscodi taking another angle:
who in this day and age is relying on email notifications for anything of importance?? This has always been a best-effort system with a zillion silent points of failure, and people's inboxes (and providers) are flooded with junk (and increasingly, AI classification systems of dubious reliability). Using email to notify someone of something important is basically a worst practice at this point.
Lauren Weinstein
in reply to Scott Francis • • •Scott Francis
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