Question regarding php's mail function.

I've created a targetted mail system for a client, that uses the mail()
function to send the the customer list.  I find it's ok for a few hundred
names, however the client has a list of over 10000 and I know that would be
way to taxing on the server, as some tests have shown.  I got the following
function off the php.net site and I'm wondering if something like this will
be significantly more efficient than using the mail function.

function sendmail($to='', $subject='', $message='', $headers='', $extra='')
{

 $fd = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $extra", 'w');

 fputs($fd, "To: $to\n");
 fputs($fd, "Subject: $subject\n");
 fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP4\n");

 if ($headers) {

   fputs($fd, "$headers\n");
 }

 fputs($fd, "\n");
 fputs($fd, $message);
 pclose($fd);
}

At this point using perl or another language is not an option.  Any advice
or links would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeff.



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