Clear cache for Global Address List in Mail.app?

[palebluedot]

Along time ago I enabled global address lists for my university exchange email server. I disabled the contact list but all the hundreds of thousands of emails still propagate on the mail.app address selection box. This has become quite a problem for accidentally clicking the wrong emails, etc. Is there anyway I can mass wipe the cache without having to delete my iPhone backup and restore fresh (I like to keep all my old text messages).

I know you can delete 1 by 1 but that would take me forever.

 

[macsrcool1234]

Did you try deleting the mail account and making it again? Since it's exchange you won't lose anything.

Also try removing the device from OWA.

 

[palebluedot]

Did you try deleting the mail account and making it again? Since it's exchange you won't lose anything.

Also try removing the device from OWA.

Thanks for your response. I tried that but unfortunately when I readded the email the contacts showed up again from the GAL, even though it is not enabled. When I removed the account they stopped showing up. Apparently the iPhone must hold a special cache that it never gets rid of, even when you delete the account?