Delete email address under "recent" tab

[loanadvisor]

When I click the "To" button to add contacts to a new email.. I have tons of old email address pop up. Email address I only emailed once ... long ago.   How do I go through all these and delete them?  I see where I can check the box next to all of them to add to a new email. But no option to delete them.

I already went to the Google ( server end) and deleted them there.  However, seems they are stored local somewhere?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

If it's the "Recents" tab:

Those messages are extracted from actual recent emails stored on the device, every time you bring up the contact picker.

Since AquaMail automatically trims its local message store over time -- when all messages containing those addresses are trimmed, the addresses will stop showing on the recent list.

If it's the "Contacts" tab:

Those are taken from system contacts and system contacts only.

I'm aware of cases like yours, where some contacts don't seem to exist (in Contacts app), but -- the Contacts tab takes its content from system contacts and system contacts only.

Maybe you could try Google Contacts on the web, to see if those mysterious addresses exist there:

http://contacts.google.com

[Grahampie]

I have exactly the same problem - with a few email addresses which have been closed over 10 years in on case.  I have tried the suggested link, but they do not exist there.
Most frustrating.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

>> exactly the same problem

And which of the two would that be?

Unwanted contacts in the Contacts tab?

OR

Unwanted contacts in the Recents tab?

Two completely different issues.