How to Disable Lets Encrypt Renewal emails

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4
Webmin version 2.111
Usermin version 2.010
Virtualmin version 7.10.0
Theme version 21.10
Package updates 92 package updates are available

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When a SSL certificate is renewed the domain owner get an email

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the question

  • How can i turn this email notification off per domain?
  • How can i turn this email notification off globally?

Thanks

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Hello,

Run the following command to update the email associated with Certbot to an empty value:

certbot update_account --email ""

When done, check the account information by running:

certbot show_account

cd /etc/letsencrypt/renewal

List the files in this directory. Each config file corresponds to a domain for which Certbot has a certificate.

Edit a file and look for the email field in it. If none exists, add one under [renewalparams] section. It should look something like this:

email = "your-email@example.com"

@Jamie, do we support --no-eff-email flag yet when running renewals?

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Many thanks for the information and I will go over it carefully.

Can this be made an option virtualmin?

  • Also settable in the server template?

Many people find these emails annoying.:grinning:

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Or if you use usermin to it’s capacity you never see them, assuming you use an email address that virtualmin/webmin/usermin manages as you can just remove them in those configurations

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No, but is the email in question coming from Virtualmin, or from Let’s Encrypt?

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Yes, email notifications related to Let’s Encrypt certificates are sent by Let’s Encrypt.

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But the email in the original post was sent by Virtualmin, not the Let’s Encrypt service…

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  • To clarify the email seems to be sent from my Webmin system email address
    webmin@server.example.com to my domain owners account owner@example.com
  • I had a quick look but could not find the text strings from the email message in webmin or virtualmin, but I could of missed them. Is this an email built by virtualmin/webmin from the certbot response?

I can PM you the headers of the email if needed.

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Yes, that’s the specific case.

However, we discussed Let’s Encrypt and certbot configuration. Let’s Encrypt sends emails as well. Those were in question, right?

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From this GitHub discussion:

@iliajie Are these options for the forwarding option and can you just clarify the options for me please

  • Disabled = obvious
  • System Default Admin Email =
  • Virtual Server Email Address =

  • Disabled: Tells Let’s Encrypt not to send any notifications for any accounts.

  • System Default Admin Email: Configures certbot to instruct Let’s Encrypt to send notifications for all domains to a unified email address, such as webmin-system@server.com.

  • Virtual Server Email Address: Configures certbot to instruct Let’s Encrypt to send notifications to the email address associated with each domain specifically, like user@example.com.

However, considering this now, it should actually be a dropdown with four options not three, as technically, we can use --register-unsafely-without-email for a specific domain to disable notifications only for that domain.

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Ok I will look into adding an option to control if and when Virtualmin sends email about Let’s Encrypt cert renewals…

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This has been implemented for inclusion in the next release…

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@jamie from reading the code I can see options have been added to

Virtualmin --> Manage Virtual Sever --> Setup SSL Certificate

I could quite understand the code, have you updated anything else, perhaps a command line binary, server template, API update?

Thanks

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Yes I also added the ability to disable renewal emails to the generate-letsencrypt-cert command

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thanks for the fix and the update

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