I've got a form (for sending mail to a user) and the user input is in an html form using the post method to pass: <textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="80" wrap="virtual"> along with some other vars to a php page which sends the message using: mail("username@domain.tld", $msgSubject, $message, "From: $addyFrom"); But if you type: What's it's problem? I've got flippin' issues! In the message box, it comes in e-mail as: What\'s it\'s problem? I\'ve got flippin\' issues! Escaping every apostrophe. How do I have this not happen? Thanks in advance. Joe