Deleting email addresses from Envelope Index?

Hi,
I have a few incorrect addresses that pop up via auto-completion-suggestion when I start to enter someone's address into the "TO" field in Mail.app (e.g., I misspelled their name (not address) once upon a time and Mail.app insists on using the misspelled version, or there's an out-of-date address that I would like not to be autosuggested any more).
Googling suggests that the repository of this info is the file "Envelope Index", a 160M DB file. Can I interact with this DB directly? Is there any other way to remove (or edit) individual entries that get auto-completion-suggested?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
-- Mike

Mike,
I don't know where you read this advice, but it seems very incorrect to me -- the Envelope Index does not store email addresses. You simply need to click on Window in the menubar of the Mail window, and choose Previous Recipients. Find the bad addresses, highlight and choose Remove. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/9976.html
Ernie
Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

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