don't select next email after delete

[hundred17]

When going through emails, I find it a little infuriating that when I open an email, desk with it, then delete it, Thunderbird opens the next email automatically.

It feels like a struggle to simply keep unread emails unread. Wish there was a setting so that deleting an email would just show an empty screen instead of selecting the next email and marking it unread automatically.

[Jon]

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[ThePillenwerfer]

Open Settings and scroll down to Reading & Display.  Tick the "Close message window/tab on move or delete" box.

[Menomoree]

Unchecking that box does not help me. It still marks the next message as read. I have had to select never automatically mark messages read to keep unread status.