should rake task be spawned?

Hi     I have rake code as below..What I am doing is sending mail to

sd_records=ServiceDeskTicket.find :all, :conditions=>["updated_on < ? and service_desk_status_id != ?",48.hours.ago,6]         for record in sd_records            puts "Service desk number is #{record.number}"          #Now to each such sd ticket primary group assignee mails is to be send

        end

    Here inside for loop I have to send mail to primary_assignee of the group responsible for each of the service desk ticket..This rake task is executed on each 1 hour..So my question is should the mail sending portion (inserting in for loop) be done as seperate threads..I am using spawn to that..My doubt is if say some thousands of service desk tickets this will create that much processes..Is that the right solution?Or not spawn it just continue and write code for mail send in the above for loop..Could you please give me a good advise?

Thanks in advance Sijo