diff --git a/bin/vmail-autoresponders-add.sh b/bin/vmail-autoresponders-add.sh
index 1c2e60d..662294d 100755
--- a/bin/vmail-autoresponders-add.sh
+++ b/bin/vmail-autoresponders-add.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ help()
   echo "  -o <mode>     Mode - either Autoresponder or Vacation. Default is Vacation."
   echo "  -s <0|1>      Status. 0 = disabled/off, 1 = enabled/on. Default is 1."
   echo ""
-  echo "                The body must be single quoted and escaped. All single quotes in the body must"
-  echo "                have double back slash like this \\\' and all newlines should be encoded as \n."
+  echo "                The body must be base64 encoded, this is to handle special characters and html entities."
   echo "                In Vacaion mode only the first email from a specific address is replied to,"
   echo "                in Autoresponder mode every incoming email, including repeats, get a response."
   exit
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ elif [ "$mbox_id" -gt '0' ]; then
   autoresponder_id=`eval $dbcmd $dbcmdopts \"$dbquery\"`
   if [[ -z $autoresponder_id ]]; then
     # no autoresponder, add new one now
-    dbquery="INSERT INTO vm_autoresponders SET mbox='$mbox', domain='$domain', subject='$subject', body='$body'"
+    dbquery="INSERT INTO vm_autoresponders SET mbox='$mbox', domain='$domain', subject='$subject', body=FROM_BASE64('$body')"
     if [ ! -z $mode ]; then
       dbquery="$dbquery, mode='$mode'"
     fi
diff --git a/bin/vmail-autoresponders-get.sh b/bin/vmail-autoresponders-get.sh
index 8b22e1c..8cc6c49 100755
--- a/bin/vmail-autoresponders-get.sh
+++ b/bin/vmail-autoresponders-get.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ help()
   echo "                Search term is optional. If nothing specified all forwards for all email acccounts for all domains will be returned."
   echo "                Enter email address to get autoresponder info for that email address."
   echo "                Enter domain name to get all autoresponders for all email addresses under that domain."
+  echo "                Body is returned in base64 encoding, for handling special characters and html entities."
   exit
 }
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ if [[ -n $tab ]]; then
 fi
 
 # build query
-dbquery="SELECT mbox, domain, QUOTE(subject) AS subject, QUOTE(REPLACE(REPLACE(body,'\r\n','\n'),'\n','\\n')) AS body, mode, status FROM vm_autoresponders"
+dbquery="SELECT mbox, domain, QUOTE(subject) AS subject, TO_BASE64(body) AS body, mode, status FROM vm_autoresponders"
 
 # set search options
 if [[ -n $email ]]; then
diff --git a/bin/vmail-autoresponders-mod.sh b/bin/vmail-autoresponders-mod.sh
index 4d6cb04..238cc1d 100755
--- a/bin/vmail-autoresponders-mod.sh
+++ b/bin/vmail-autoresponders-mod.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ help()
   echo "  -o <mode>     Mode - either Autoresponder or Vacation."
   echo "  -s <0|1>      Status. 0 = disabled/off, 1 = enabled/on. Default is 1."
   echo ""
-  echo "                The body must be single quoted and escaped. All single quotes in the body must"
-  echo "                have double back slash like this \\\' and all newlines should be encoded as \n."
+  echo "                The body must be base64 encoded, this is to handle special characters and html entities."
   echo "                In Vacaion mode only the first email from a specific address is replied to,"
   echo "                in Autoresponder mode every incoming email, including repeats, get a response."
   exit
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ else
     dbquery="$dbquery, subject='$subject'"
   fi
   if [ ! -z "$body" ]; then
-    dbquery="$dbquery, body='$body'"
+    dbquery="$dbquery, body=FROM_BASE64('$body')"
   fi
   if [ ! -z $mode ]; then
     dbquery="$dbquery, mode='$mode'"