Deleting old address in Mac OS X Mail

When I update a persons e-mail address, it shows properly in address book, but when I access it from within mail by typing in the name, i'm shown the old e-mail as well as the new one. How do I remove the old?
David

Remove the old address from the previous recipients list under 'Window' on the Mail menubar.
S.

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Deleting old addresses

Running LEOPARD 10.5.5, ADDRESS BOOK Version 4.1.1 (696), and MAIL Version 3.5 (929.4/929.2). Want to delete old addresses from mail. All the old addresses of, let's say Suzy, keep popping up even tho only the latest address is in the book. Can't seem to find an answer to prob in Address Book help. pls advise. thanks

in Mail go to the Windows menu ==> Previous Recipients
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I set up a new account on a G4 PowerMac with 10.3.9 installed. This computer was being used previously by one of my other users. My question is: whenever the new user wants to send a new message and she types in the address she needs to use, it is set to automatically fill the address. All of the old user's addresses still appear as choices. How do I delete all the old addresses? I've already deleted all the old addresses from the address book. But they still appear in the automatic fill. Is there a cache somewhere to empty?
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Kately,
Mail>Window>Previous Recipients>(Select as desired) then click on "Remove From List"
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I am having a problem deleting the "old" address when I have entered the new changed address in the Address Book. Even though the old address does not show as a card in Address Book, when entering the address for the recipient in mail, the "old" address pops in.
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Hello, I have had a good bit of time spent on this today, and with alot of input from paypal (to no avail) I have sorted it for myself. If you have loads of old addresses that are now redundant, this is how you get rid of them (its probably a bit long winded, but it is the ONLY way I have found to do it, not even 3 service representatives could do it.....). I will take you through baby steps (stick with me), its a bit odd, but it works. 1. When you have logged into paypal, click on the gear cog (near the log out button)2. Your name then appears in big letters on the middle-ish of the page3. Next to my name, it says "edit"4. Click edit.5. It will ask you if you want to change your name, click cancel6. It will then take you to a more in-depth "My Profile" page7. Third option down will be, "address" (Name, email, address). You can then see all your previous address and remove as necessary.8. Ta-dah! It should now be only the addresses you wish to keep I know its convoluted, but it worked for me. Good luck!!

Hi, I have a little more info on this topic that I'd like to share. I thought I had deleted all the old addresses a few months ago -- my current address was the only one that showed up on the main profile page. Today, I used PayPal to make a purchase online, and it changed the shipping address to one of the addresses I thought I had removed! I found your post, and found the secret profile page. It still showed 11 addresses, but I got an error when I tried to delete anything, so I called Customer Support. After fighting with the automated system for a while, I finally got a person and explained it to her, including how to find the secret page. It took her a while, but she was able to delete all the old addresses! Much happiness and cheering ensued. So the moral of the story is that, if you can't delete them yourself, MAYBE an informed Customer Service person can do it.

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access the old named web site which contains the
un-desired deleted page.
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