For those who would like to continue getting email notifications, Let’s Encrypt suggests using a third-party service such as Red Sift Certificates Lite, which is free for up to 250 certificates.
Sending out email notifications also means that the organization needs to retain millions of email addresses connected to issuance records.
The news was confirmed by the company’s executive director and co-founder, Josh Aas, in a blog post noting email notifications will stop going out on June 4, 2025, citing four key reasons.
In other words, Let’s Encrypt will delete millions of email addresses from its database, reducing the risk of those emails being snatched by a threat actor.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) that provides SSL/TLS certificates to websites.
