Hi, I have a situation where our site sends out email alerts. I didn't write the scripts but am trying to adjust. When someone signs up for email alerts in a certain category, their email gets stuffed in a field in the database, and it's separated by ~~~. So the email field in the alerts database could have multiple emails in there.

I've setup a bademails table that we can store bounced emails. I want to check that table, then remove any emails from the alerts table. Here's what I have, but something is wrong with my loop. It stops after finding one record. 



###### 
$SQL = "Select * from bademails ORDER BY ID DESC";
&Do_SQL;
while ($pointer = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
    $bademail = $pointer->{'email'};
    

    $SQL2 = "Select * from $alertstable where email LIKE '%$bademail%'
+";
    &Do_SQL2;
    
    $item = $pointer2->{'type'};
    $alertype = $pointer2->{'alertype'};
    $emaillist = $pointer2->{'email'};
    $ID = $pointer2->{'ID'};



    @emails = split /~~~/,$emaillist;
    foreach $address (@emails) {

    print "$ID<Br>\n";

    $elist = "";
       if ($address eq $bademail) {
           $elist = $elist . $address . "~~~";
       }
        
   }


   $SQL3 = "UPDATE $alertstable SET email='$elist' WHERE type='$item' 
+and alerttype='$alerttype'";
   &Do_SQL3;
   print "Updated $ID<Br>\n";
    
    
    } # end while
#######################

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