[08:02] <Mathuin> Will the EC2 machines let me send mail?  I want to send a short text file (log output) before shutting the server down for good.
[14:44] <flaccid> Mathuin: sure
[15:20] <Mathuin> flaccid: I'm using one of the official Ubuntu AMIs (the Maverick 64-bit us-east one) what do I need to do?
[15:21] <flaccid> send mail as you usually would
[15:22] <flaccid> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer#Mail Transfer Agent
[15:23] <Mathuin> I installed mailutils (it's interactive, bad news for my batch job) and send mail to my gmail account but it never arrived.
[15:23] <flaccid> check /var/log/mail*
[15:24] <Mathuin> Looks like google accepted the SMTP transaction.
[15:25] <flaccid> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailx
[15:25] <Mathuin> hah!  my spam filter sat on it.
[15:25] <flaccid> nice
[15:26] <flaccid> you can consider ses for more reliable mail
[15:27] <Mathuin> Hmm.
[15:27] <Mathuin> I almost wonder if there's some web-based approach I could be using, where I'm pushing the logs via HTTP instead of mail.
[15:32] <flaccid> syslog
[15:36] <Mathuin> I thought of that, but it seemed wrong.  A web-based solution would allow two-way communication.  Spin up a cloud machine, have it check the website for jobs, download a job, complete it, upload logs, lather rinse repeat, shutdown when no more jobs are left to be done.