So run a postfix/sendmail gateway to fork a perl script to send email through the SES API? Doesn't this seem like kind of a kludge? Why not just send mail throu

So run a postfix/sendmail gateway to fork a perl script to send email through the SES API? Doesn't this seem like kind of a kludge? Why not just send mail through the original SMTP server if you're going to take the time to set it up and maintain it?