Ghost email addresses........

We have an iPhone 4 and its used by a few people and we put in a mail account and check and delete it at times, but with my primary account I go to type a name in the To: box for an email and all kinds of names and addresses come up. Many of those names and addresses are from accounts that have been used but deleted. I don't want or need these various names trying to auto populate the To field.
And if the account was active it would make sense, but these are addresses that I am not sure why the phone remember them as they are from an account that is deleted.
How can I flush out that information? And can I do it just for the addresses or will flushing out the addresses also delete other information that is cached?
Thanks in advance.

The only way to delete those addresses from autocomplete is to restore the phone as new.

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Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If someone sending you email receives a reply that the message bounced, you may want to see if they receive the "452" alert message explained in this article:
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Hi There
My apple account was in my partners name , I have now changed it to my name .
The problem is my icloud email still shows up his name at the beginning of my email address. eg Jo Blogg ( [email protected] ) .
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I hope I have explained this properly and someone can help ?
Cheers
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Hey There I didn't need to change it as it shows my correct name in my icloud account. The problem is on my Mac where it still shows my Full name as my partners name.
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Thank you! So far so good, I am aware that my previous setup was most likely done in MobileMe and I do remember that I "conveniently" ignored all the reminders that were being sent to make adjustments for the iCloud takeover ... it just didn't seem to apply to me; erroneous assumption as it turns out.
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Your Desktop?
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I would guess this is an AIM valid Screen Name such as an Apple issued @mac.com account.
I would also guess you travel to other countries.
There have been several posts about @mac.com names and people who travel and use their Screen Name elsewhere having the name Suspended.
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