Deleting email address from contacts help please.

[sirius]

I have been trying to delete old email addresses that have changed in my BT yahoo mail account if I delete the address from the contacts list or right click on the address on the compose message page and use the drop down menu remove address the result is the same the email address is still remembered when the first letter is typed in for new emails.  I have 2 laptops using windows 7 and windows XP both do the same.

Thanks for any help
Sirius

[mhg]

As likely as not, this is down to the email client that you are using.
Which one is it?

[sirius]

I am using Google Chrome if that's what you mean.

Thanks
Sirius 

[Gaie]

Hi Sirius

I presume you do the same as me and view your e-mails remotely on the BTYahoo website.  I've just had a look and I can't see a way to get rid of addresses in the drop-down box; right-clicking on an address doesn't give an option to delete from the list 

It's not a problem for me at the moment but I'd be interested in a solution for the future.

KR
Gaie

[sirius]

Hi Gaie

When send a new email I can right click on the address I want to delete after entering it in the "to" box the drop down box has remove address as an option.  As I have said I have also deleted in the contacts, but it keeps remembering it in the "to" box.  I tried accessing BTYahoo
login via internet explorer, made no difference 

[blodwen]

Doesn't the "to" box contain about 8-10 email addresses that will eventually be taken over by the addresses you use in the future?  Which means the "to" box gets "updated" with the new addresses you use  pushing the older ones down the list and then out?

Maybe eventually the deleted email addresses will vanish 

Viv

[Alexander.]

I think the drop-down "to" box shows email addresses from your Inbox, rather than those from your address book. So if you still have an email in your inbox from that old address, it will still appear in the drop down list. I use a different email provider to you but this is what mine does.

Alexander

[[Ray]]

Hi

When the dropdown box opens, manouvre to the unwanted address and hit the delete/del button.

Ray

[sirius]

I have tried before placing the cursor over the email address to be deleted in the drop down list of emails and pressing the delete key, but nothing happens also tried right clicking and that does not give you the option to delete and also holding down the left click key and high lighting
the address all have failed.
For an experiment I entered a new email address in my contacts that I knew I had no emails from either in the in box or anywhere else after deleting the new address from my contacts list it was still remembered in the drop down list from the "to" box.

Thanks
Sirius