Thunderbird puts a hidden "mailto:" line into every email address I put in the body of my message. It screws up the end processor on the mail server I maintain

I maintain a club email list by sending plain text commands to it such as:
subscribe members [email protected]
(If you're old enough you'll have an idea of what the web master is still using).
Thunderbird has started attaching an invisible "mailto:" in front of each of the email addresses in my commands and the remote server rejects them. I see these as hot-links in my outgoing sent mail folder.
I have turned off HTML processing and tried to send text only but the hot links are still there in my sent box copy of the plain text message.
I POP my mail for a reason, more so than just my own convenience.
What is going on?
-russest

Thunderbird allows you to disable HTML composition, which is where I thought this was occurring (see image).
When I emailed myself plain-text email addresses in the body of the email, they would arrive with the address portions within the message body highlighted in blue and hot linked. If you hover the mouse over them, a link shows up in the lower left corner of the mail window showing the "mailto:" tag prefixed to the email address even though it is not visible in the message body.
I found no settings within Thunderbird that would allow me to turn this off and, unless this is an "undocumented feature" of the program, it is incredibly difficult to understand why this is happening or if this is the cause of the problem I'm having with maintaining the web mail server data base.
In a fit of revenge, last night the server manager program, "majordomo", stopped speaking to me at all. The web master is on the same domain so I don't know if I accidentally killed the host or he just hasn't responded to my emails about this problem yet (he has a day job and a life).
-russest

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