How to delete an email address in Mail

A friend of mine has just changed his email address but I cannot remove his old one from Mail. I have added his new address and removed the old one from my Address book but his old address still comes up as the default when starting a new email to him.
Any ideas would be appreciated...Cheers...

Biggest apologies thought I was writing about iOS!?
Am I also wrong about that too in iOS?
LukaMac
Re: how to delete an email address in Mail
Jan 16, 2012 6:53 PM (in response to Helpstonharv)
It appears because your mail app remembers a history of addresses.
It cannot be deleted but I think it will disappear after a certain time.
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