You've just reiterated the point everyone has already made... dump it to your MTA and allow it to handle the spooling and delivery. However, you'll definitely want to consider PIPELINING (sending multiple emails through a single SMTP connection). This will decrease the number of sendmail threads and increase your performance.
s/ sendmail threads / sendmail processes /;
-- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
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