How to get rid of old addresses in Mail?

I run Mail on two machines ( system 10.3.9)
When I start typing in an address ( in a new message) the suggestions pop up with various names etc. Often some of the suggestions are old addresses that are no longer valid and are no longer in my Address Book.
I have deleted or changed addesses in the Address Book, but these old email addresses still seem to hide somewhere and it is quite annoying.
Not sure how rid of theses pests.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Elfiji

Welcome to the Discussions.
Collecting addresses to which you have sent is the function a special address book called Previous Recipients. To learn about managing it, both to remove, and to actually add to the primary Address Book, see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml1025.html
Ernie

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