Deleting email addresses recommended by mail on an iPad or iphone

How do I delete email addresses showing as recent in mail when I start to type in to the To..this is on my iPad and iPhone.  Many are a long time ago...they seem to collect forever.  Is there a way to delete these other than one by one when they show up as I type in the To on an email?  Better yet, is there a way to turn this off so that the suggestions are only based on what I have in my contacts?

You can get rid of them, but you do have to do it one at a time as the come up. You can keep scrolling down through the suggestions and delete a bunch in one sitting, as long as they come up in the suggestions.
You can only do this with email addresses that have the "I" to the right. That means that they are not in your contacts. Contacts have to be deleted in the contacts app.
To get rid of the unwanted Recents, tap the blue "I" to the right of the email adress. In the next window you can tap on Remove From Recents to delete them.

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