Yosemite is recreating plist and other files deleted in Mail.app

First, excuse my poor English.
This happens several times: files I used to delete (like the previous recipients list in mail.app or the signaturas in Mail) are recreated automatically...
That's strange, even if I trash the files, and reboot, the miles are full of information and recreated again and this is a problem for me since I want to delete them to recréate brand new ones with good information. Whah's happening in Yosemite ? Where this information is stored ? I wonder....
Here is one precise exemples in mail.app:
- I want to trash the signatures files in mail.app.
Usually i went to my user/Library/Mail/V2/Maildata and delete the whole folder Signatures.
Now I trash the folder but when I reopen Mail all my signatures are recreated....
I wonder where it comes from....
I need to delete this folder because i have a problem switching signature...

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Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
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Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window.
Important: This action will delete any signatures and custom Mail stationery that you created. If you want to preserve that data, ask for instructions.
If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
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