I may not have been clear.
Paradox is doing this behavior automatically, no code on my part, and I don't want it to. I am assuming corel thought this was a clever feature, to take anything that might be an email address and assume you want to send to it. It's pretty annoying and I would like to stop it. I have worked in borlands 7.5 paradox for many years and am just now joinging the new mellenium, so this beahior is new to me.
I thought maybe it had something to do with my legacy app, so in PDOX11 I created a fresh table with a memo field and then created a fresh form with a table frame linked to the table. I added successive records with the following values in the memo field:
"A bunch of text with @and .com"
"Andriana placed order for 5,000 PS95 @ .18 each. Have plant send copy of invoice with shipping."
"PS95 @ .18 each. Have"
With edit off, I mouse click into the field and without any code from me, paradox triggers the effect of a senddlg() using the value of the memo field for the "to" field in the new email.
I did note that with edit() on entering the field does not trigger the email. But I would rather not have to take it into edit to avoid the unintended senddlg() behavior.