Email Auto Complete

I noticed that when I select " compose email" and type in for example, one letter, lets say "a", that I get a hundred or so suggestions for email recipients, that I have no idea who they are, or where they came from. It looks like most of them are being picked up from either my junk email folder, which I never of course respond to, or else, websites that I may have visited.
I get any email listings that range from Ebay, to Lottery sites, to junk emails that I receive for sexual enlargements (alot of those), to people I have no idea who they are.
Where the heck are these coming from, and how do I stop that from happening ?
My understanding of auto complete, was to just show the people that you at one time responded to or emailed at one time.
This is  not the case here.

And you think that is an acceptable idea.??? To allow every single email received to be added to the auto suggestion drop down box??? Over time I will have more then 10 times more **bleep** emails added then ones that are actually valid. This is so totally ridiculous. Please fix this issue!!!!!

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