prevent joomla from stripping @ symbol - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support

hi,
i developing first module on joomla. module simple registration forms sending information via email.
within have text box asks user type email address. problem when retrieve textbox value on helper class, @ symbol removed string, how can prevent this.
the code is:

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<input type="text" class="textbox" id="tbemail"
                  name="tbemail" autocomplete="off" />

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      $mailer=& jfactory::getmailer();
      $mailer->ishtml(true);
      $mailer->setsender($params->get('tbemailfrom'));
      $mailer->addrecipient($params->get('tbemailto'));
      $mailer->setsubject($params->get('tbsubject'));
      $mailer ->encoding = 'base64';
      $mailer->setbody($tbemail);
      $send =& $mailer->send();

thanks in advance help.

i wasn't aware stripped @ symbol, should post variable that's populated full string?

where's rest of code?