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Hi.
For me it wasn't clear why I should enter my email address for the user account, so I entered test@example.org.
At certificates I tried to add my host for "let's encrypt via http", but when I hit save I got: "Internal error" and nothing else. Whily debugging I found that the ACME challenge failed.
- Improve the description of email address e.g. "mandatory, and will be used for let's encrypt registration"
- "Internal error" isn't user friendly, if the acme challenge responds already(via docker log):
[3/8/2026] [11:13:31 AM] [Express ] › ⚠ warning Saving debug log to /data/logs/letsencrypt.log
Unable to register an account with ACME server. The ACME server believes test@example.org is an invalid email address. Please ensure it is a valid email and attempt registration again.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /data/logs/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.
If this message is returned, the user does know what went wrong.
btw. after entering the correct mail address, the registration worked perfectly.
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