How to remove unwanted automatic email addresses from Apple Mail

Once you know how to do this you'll think, 'why didn't I think of it before?' There's always a solution to what you want to do on a Macintosh, but how you might think to do it may not be how the Mac software developers believe you should do it.

If you use Apple Mail on a Macintosh, as some dear to my heart do, when you create a new email and start typing in the To: field you might find several out of date email addresses for people who have since changed them.

To prevent them from appearing as suggested addresses go to Window in the Mail menu, Previous Recipients, and from there you can delete those pesky, persistent, outdated email addresses.

And why didn't you think of this solution in the first place? Well who would think to look in 'Window' to do that?

Side note - there are questions posted about Macintosh-related technical and how-to situations and there are Windows-related ones also, but the Windows-related ones seem to get answered online while the Mac ones don't. Why?