table values

Hi, I am running a bouncing script for bounced emails that updated to a database. What I want to do is have 3 bounces before dis-allowing emails to be sent to that user. So I have the following tables in my db: - Username Username of the user - Email Users Email Address - email_setting If set to 2 (default) it will send an email to their inbox and one to the website internal website, if set to 1 it will send only to internal website, if set 0 it will send to inbox only. Any other values will not send to anything. - emailerror Counts the emails error that have bounced back. This is what I would like to do... If an email bounces it will grab the email in the inbox and match it to the database. If a match is there it will put +1 value in emailerror. (This has already been achieved, I have done this) What I want to do is once the value in emailerror reaches 3 I than want the email_setting set to -1 so no emails get sent out. So If user bob had 3 bounces I'd want to grab the 3 value and reset it to 0 and change email_setting to -1. How could I achieve this? I need this to apply to all Users when they reach emailerror = 3. I need it to be safe and work when it reaches 3+. I'm not familiar with grabbing a value from one table and putting a new value in another. So all help is mostly appreciated. What I have now is a bouncing script. It grabs the email addresses from the orginal body of an email, runs it in a loop than puts it in a query to do a match on my db. If one is found it makes the updates (emailerror = +1) ... If no match it does nothing. Now I need to grab values of 3 or higher in emailerror and reset to 0 and place a -1 value in email_setting but not sure how to do this. Thanks for your time. J http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE!