On 14.08.2019 08:11, alpha beta wrote: > Hi there, > > I just noticed that whenever I open Thunderbird (60.7.0) having > Enigmail enabled (2.0.12) a new process is spawned by a binary from > inside the profile directory (pep-json-server). > > It seems to be some kind of HTTP API server, but I wasn't able to find out > more. > > Do you also have the same process listening? > > What is it, and why do Enigmail need it > > I don't mind if Enigmail needs a server listening on localhost, but it > seems that exiting Thunderbird does not kill the pep-json-server > process, which is tedious. > > Is this desired behaviour? > > Thanks in advance > Cheers
If you use Enigmail in the "pEp Junior Mode", then the pep-json-server is started. The pep-json-server is the pEp Engine that provides the JSON API (over localhost http), which delivers all functionalities of pEp (such as encryption, decryption, security level, trustwords, ...). The pep-json-server is intended to be a daemon and does not need to be stopped just because Thunderbird quits. Enigmail will reconnect to a running pep-json-server if you restart Thunderbird, and other applications using the same API could also connect to the same pep-json-server. Thus, yes it's desired to work like this. -Patrick
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