A few weeks ago Let’s Encrypt announced that they would no longer be sending email notifications for expiring certificates. The reasoning is sound. So now what?

Well, if you depend on Let’s Encrypt and certbot for your certificates hopefully you’ve already set up auto-renewal for your non-manual certificates.

For those of us using manual renewal authentication methods (DNS entry, webroot file, etc) who have not automated certificate renewal and who rely on Let’s Encrypt emails to notify you it is time to renew - I’ve got a solution.

I created a simple python utility that will run certbot certificates evaluate the response and notify you via pushover when you have certificates ready for renewal.

About the Author: Brian Roy

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