multi Email from a php script using pear

[johncron]

I need some help with a problem that's frazzling my gray matter.

I'm rewriting my website with Apache, PHP, PEAR & MYSQL the old version was written with Microsoft technologies IIS, ASP, VB & ACCESS.

The site serves about 2000 members of which about 600-700 are emailed weekly with various updates (no spam). The email works
from HTML templates which have text inserted to personalise them for each member, they also contain embedded graphics as logos.
 Most of site has been completed and here is my problem, With the VB version I used an Access front end connected to the
 database and when I sent the emails (using windows CDO) as each mail was sent details of that mail Name; ID; email address etc., were
 displayed on a form with a progress meter indicating which mail of the total was currently being sent.

I would like to display this information on the web page as each mail is sent from the script but cannot get this to work (don't even know if it's possible !!).
I am using an Index.php script but am unable to get the HTML display page to show each individual mail (one at a time) as the script is running.

Any help greatly appreciated.