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When reporting issues it can be useful to provide your Let's Encrypt account ID.
Most of the time, the process of creating an account is handled automatically by
the ACME client software you use to talk to Let's Encrypt, and you may have
multiple accounts configured if you run ACME clients on multiple servers.

Your account ID is a URL of the form
`https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/reg/12345678`. You can also provide
just the digits at the end of that URL as a shorthand.

If you're using Certbot, you can find your account ID by looking at the "uri"
field in
`/etc/letsencrypt/accounts/acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory/*/regr.json`.

If you're using another ACME client, the instructions will be client-dependent.
Check your logs for URLs of the form described above. If your ACME client does
not record the account ID, you can retrieve it by submitting a new registration
request with the same key. See the [ACME spec for more
details](https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/blob/master/draft-ietf-acme-acme.md#registration)

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