using flush or something...

[slimjim]

Ok I have not had luck with my task at hand. So if you can help me out, please do.......

While it is emailing, I want it to show " Sending Emails ........... "
Not 5 minutes into it or when it is done.
The minute I click the send button i want it to show "Sending Emails....."
Or some progress bar or something..
I tried as you can see with the:
print "Sending email..........";
flush();

sleep(5);

And of course that isnt working... So if you can help me out here PLEASE....

  $to = $_POST['to'];
  $subject = $_POST['subject'];
  $message = $_POST['message'];
   $x = 1;
   $hold = 5; // quantity of emails sent before 3 sec delay
   $emails = mysql_query("select * from letters");
   while ($sendemail = mysql_fetch_array($emails)) {
   $email = $sendemail["email"];
   mail($email, $subject,
   $message, "From:Mailing <[e-mail]>");

   $x++;
    if($x == $hold) { // When $x is equal to $hold, a 3 sec delay will occur avoiding php to timeout
    print "Sending email.......";
    flush();    

    sleep(5);
    $x = 0;
    }
   } // end of while loop