Old address in Mail app - where is it coming from?

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Old address in Mail app - where is it coming from?

When I compose a mail message on my iPod touch and enter a name into the To field, it brings up an old address which to the best of my knowledge is not in my current list of contacts. Does anyone know where it gets this address from (history?) and if so, how I can remove it?

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 12, 2010 1:23 PM

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dboin

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Mar 10, 2010 1:12 PM in response to Patricia W

Better yet.... How do you delete them so you only see the addresses which are in the addressbook?

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Mar 10, 2010 2:47 PM in response to Patricia W

The Mail app on the iPhone/iPod Touch does have an option to clear previous recipients. The only way to remove these cached email addresses from the Mail application is restoring the iPhone/iPod Touch as a new phone/iPod. If you restore from backup, the cache is also restored.

This article shows you the screens you will see during the restore: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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