Sending email - escaping characters

Hello, I am having a bit of a problem and I can't figure it out, although I am sure the solution is easy: I have one page called email.php and it has a text area for the body of an email message. The "To" and "Subject" Fields are pre filled out. I have another page called send_email.php and it has a line that will send the email: mail($TO_EMAIL,$SUBJECT,$BODY, "From: \"You\" <\"you@yourcompany.com\">\n"); If the $BODY of the message (the text that the user types in) has either a ' or a " the email will come with a \' and a \". How do I prevent the escaping of the characters? I tried the following: mail("$TO_EMAIL","$SUBJECT","$BODY", "From: \"You\" <\"you@yourcompany.com\">\n"); mail('$TO_EMAIL','$SUBJECT','$BODY', "From: \"You\" <\"you@yourcompany.com\">\n"); Neither of those works. Thanks for your help. Rohan :-)