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+# Copyright (C) 1998-2008 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+# USA.
+
+"""Process emailed commands.
+
+Called by the wrapper, stdin is the mail message, and argv[1] is the name
+of the target mailing list.
+
+Errors are redirected to logs/error.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import logging
+
+from mailman import Utils
+from mailman import loginit
+from mailman.configuration import config
+from mailman.i18n import _
+from mailman.queue import Switchboard
+
+
+
+def main():
+    config.load()
+    # Setup logging to stderr stream and error log.
+    loginit.initialize(propagate=True)
+    log = logging.getLogger('mailman.error')
+    try:
+        listname = sys.argv[1]
+    except IndexError:
+        log.error(_('request script got no listname.'))
+        sys.exit(1)
+    # Make sure the list exists
+    if not Utils.list_exists(listname):
+        log.error(_('request script, list not found: $listname'))
+        sys.exit(1)
+    # Immediately queue the message for the bounce/cmd qrunner to process.
+    # The advantage to this approach is that messages should never get lost --
+    # some MTAs have a hard limit to the time a filter prog can run.  Postfix
+    # is a good example; if the limit is hit, the proc is SIGKILL'd giving us
+    # no chance to save the message.
+    cmdq = Switchboard(config.CMDQUEUE_DIR)
+    cmdq.enqueue(sys.stdin.read(),
+                 listname=listname,
+                 torequest=True,
+                 _plaintext=True)
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()