# Why is IA sending me one email every hour? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** certifcations\ **Created:** [February 16, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994 "2026-02-16T21:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/1 "2026-02-16T21:17:42Z")
Well I just lost my certified status. I didn’t have time to take the test, and it really didn’t make a difference to my business. No biggie. And today since 8am PST I have received the same email every hour notifying me of this. Is this a fluke, or are they just that aggressive about it? lol ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/2 "2026-02-16T21:19:07Z")
Nah, I'm getting them too. I opened a support ticket, because replies to sales bounce. Due to the holiday in the U.S. FWIW, I'm **still** a heretic: > [@Certification change: feedback](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/certification-change-feedback/66282/13): > > I have near-zero faith in the certifications. I'm not a fan of certifications in general. It isn't just an IA issue. They arose as a wider proxy for the excellence that used to be recognized in a person's or organization's public reputation. They have metastasized into a replacement for reputation, enforced by financial incentives and requiring financial sacrifices, instead of being the start towards one's reputation. In today's litigious world, in part due to the financial aspects, there i… (I had an employee for a few years that went through the core cert--that is what expired recently.) ---
**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/3 "2026-02-16T22:42:53Z")
I received 6 today. ---
**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/4 "2026-02-16T22:57:26Z")
I think you certify IA though. We are not the same. We are not worthy, we are not worthy, we are not worthy. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/5 "2026-02-16T23:20:10Z")
> [@andrews](#): > > we are not worthy. Laying it on a little thick there? ![xtra_roll_eyes](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/6/f6cfd28d2ba205f663b027dd69b86f5f5f5f7b0e.png) > [@Matrix\_Engineering](#): > > received 6 Eight for me, so far. A minute or two after the top of the hour. Somebody's cron job has gone off the rails.... ---
**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/6 "2026-02-17T01:12:05Z")
I’m at 10 so far. And I don’t know, someone did make a picture of you as Ignition Jesus once if i remember correctly. ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/7 "2026-02-17T14:11:34Z")
> [@andrews](#): > > a picture of you as Ignition Jesus And it came out not too terrible for a quick crop job, if I do say so myself. Which, of course, i do. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/why-is-ia-sending-me-one-email-every-hour/113994/8 "2026-02-17T16:59:18Z")
Skimming some internal channels, looks like this spam should have stopped now, and [~~the people responsible have been sacked~~](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RdXzzYpQuw) we're looking into what happened.