Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/10/2013)
In 2008, you should have queueing. DB MAil uses Service Broker under the covers, so I wouldn't worry about that.
+1 Database Mail in 2005+ uses Service Broker so sending an email is analog to inserting a row into a table. The actually sending occurs later, asynchronous to the request to send the email.
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