How do I edit the E-mail contact list?

I deleted a contact from my contact list. When I compose an email & click on To: they are still there?

• If I type in the first letter of their name or email, their DELETED and BLOCKED email still appear! I have searched all over for the fix and I have only been able to find one - for windows. I need to know the fix for Mac please! I've deleted them off my contact list permanently (deleted their deleted file as well..) and they were never on my messenger contact list. Just email. Please help!

• Answer:

  FOR MAC its under previous recipient: Here is what you do, which i located in Help: Managing addresses in the Previous Recipients list When you send messages, Mail stores the recipients’ email addresses in the Previous Recipients list. When you want to send new messages to those email addresses, just type a few letters in an address field, and Mail automatically fills in the rest. To manage addresses in your Previous Recipients list: Choose Window > Previous Recipients. In the Previous Recipients window, do any of the following: To sort the list by name, email address, or the date the address was last used, click a column header. To search for a name in the list, enter the name in the search field. To view the card for a recipient who is already in your address book (a card icon precedes the recipient’s name), double-click the name. To add one or more selected recipients to your address book, click “Add to Address Book.” To remove one or more selected recipients from the list, click Remove From List. Removing the recipient is useful if you don’t intend to use it again or if you previously mistyped an address and want Mail to stop suggesting it as a matching address. To select addresses that are next to each other (contiguous) in the list, hold down Shift as you click the first and last addresses; to select addresses that are not next to each other in the list, hold down Command as you click each address. You can remove a recipient from the list when you send or receive a message by clicking the arrow in a Smart Address and choosing “Remove from Previous Recipients List” from the pop-up menu.