Disable email address caching/autofill.

Hi Folks,
I have seen this question asked before, but no solution. I have an iPhone 3GS, running iOS 4.2.
If I reply to an email that someone sends me, the email address is stored in the email address cache on the phone. For example, if [email protected] emails me and I respond, I now have [email protected] in my email address cache, even though it does not appear anywhee in my contacts.
So now, when I go to type a new email and type in as the first letter "j" - the email address [email protected] is now one of the options to select from.
How do I disable this, or at the very least, remove [email protected] ?
I find this feature very annoying.
Thanks.

I have seen this question asked before, but no solution.
Because there is no solution - not at the present time anyway, except for restoring your iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup to purge the entire list.
How do I disable this, or at the very least, remove [email protected] ?
Not possible to disable the list of previous recipients and not possible to remove a single email address from the list of previous recipients.
As with the Mail.app on a Mac, the iPhone's Mail app stores all email recipients in a list of previous recipients. The email address autofill feature pulls from the Address Book or Contacts, and from the list of previous recipients. Different from the Mail.app on a Mac, there is no access to the list of previous recipients to add a previous recipient to the Address Book or Contacts that is not already entered, or to remove a previous recipient from the list - not a the present time anyway.

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