# Let's Encrypt renewal is a few days late

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/lets-encrypt-renewal-is-a-few-days-late/24459>\
**Category:** Traefik v3 (latest)\
**Tags:** letsencrypt-acme\
**Created:** [September 16, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/lets-encrypt-renewal-is-a-few-days-late/24459 "2024-09-16T09:13:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![WpqJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/839c29/32.png) [@WpqJ](https://community.traefik.io/u/WpqJ)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/lets-encrypt-renewal-is-a-few-days-late/24459/1 "2024-09-16T09:13:36Z")

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I receive from Let's Encrypt emails warning me that my certificate will expire, in accordance with their [email policy](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/expiration-emails/). **The certificate is ultimately correctly renewed by Traefik**. An example of such an email from yesterday (2024-09-15):

> Your certificate (or certificates) for the names listed below will expire in 19 days (on 2024-10-05). Please make sure to renew your certificate before then, or visitors to your web site will encounter errors.

Would it be possible for Traefik to renew a few days earlier in order to avoid receiving this useful email when everything is OK, and have it alert when there is actually a renewal issue?

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**Author:** ![WpqJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/839c29/32.png) [@WpqJ](https://community.traefik.io/u/WpqJ)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 9:19am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/lets-encrypt-renewal-is-a-few-days-late/24459/2 "2024-09-16T09:19:25Z")

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Hmmmm. I checked the certificate on one of my sites and I have

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/containo/original/2X/c/c049915cd973542661c340a9a3af6dd937e26a2e.png)

After giving a thought about the discrepancy - this may be an artifact of my attempts to convert to wildcard certs (which was successful, but a cert may have been generated and not used → the one I got an email for)

I am however leaving this question open, to get a few "it works fine for me, I never get the reminder emails") to close it as "specific case, everything is OK"

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**Author:** ![bluepuma77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@bluepuma77](https://community.traefik.io/u/bluepuma77)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 9:26am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/lets-encrypt-renewal-is-a-few-days-late/24459/3 "2024-09-16T09:26:17Z")

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Works for me. I only get emails for (sub-)domains I am not using anymore.