IMAP Body to MySQL

I'm trying to write the body of a plain text email to a MySQL database. However, nothing gets inserted into the body field of the table when the following lines are executed. I've echoed the $body string back to the screen and nothing seems amiss. All the other fields are inserted correctly. I've tried changing the field type of the body column within MySQL, but that hasn't worked either. Right now, the body field is a TEXT column. $body = imap_body($inbox, $x); mysql_query ("INSERT INTO inbox (subject, fromaddress, toaddress, ccaddress, date, size, unread, body) VALUES ('$subject', '$fromaddress', '$toaddress', '$ccaddress', '$date', '$size', '$unread', '$body')"); Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian