How to delete old email aliases from Mac Mail?

I have been a Mac user since the '90s and like many, evolved up from the original OS X to today's Lion.  10 years ago, we created email aliases in a very early version of Mac Mail and today, they still populate the drop-down menu when I'm selecting the email account to send from.  Since there are 3 total aliases x 2 accounts (.Mac and .Me), I have 6 unneeded addresses which I'd like to delete.
I cannot use iCloud for this, as it shows that I do  not have any aliases..  so there is nothing to delete.
Any ideas on how to clean up the email address drop-down and delete the old aliases?
Thanks everyone!
Eric

Open Mail's preferences, and edit the SMTP outgoing server list. Delete any servers for these accounts.
You said you checked iCloud for this. I assume you meant you went to iCloud.com and checked the accounts there for aliases.

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