222231 - Option on what happens after the delete buton was pressed.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 349763

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Tony Thigpen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031013)

MS Office Outlook has a preference option on what to do after the delete button 
is pressed while viewing a message. "Open the Previous Item", "Open the Next 
Item" and "Return to Inbox". I would like to see such an option in Thunderbird 
with the following possible selections: "Go to Next Message", "Go to Next 
Unread Message", "Go to Next Unread Thread", "Go to Previous Message" and "Go 
to Previous Unread Message". This will help uses converting from MS Office.
An optional way to impliment might be some additional hotkeys and associated 
optional buttons.

Reproducible: Didn't try

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Comment 1

[Guy Soffer]

probably a duplicate of 274628 - vote for it.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Tony, is what you are asking for here more complex that what is being asked for in bug 274628?

Comment 3

[Tony Thigpen]

I don't think 274628 addresses what I need. Maybe it would be better if I give you an example of how I would use it.
When you delete an email, it always opens the next one *DOWN* the list. This will open the next newest email IF your emails are sorted with the newest at the bottom. I would rather have my newest emails at the top of the list so I really need the delete button to have an option to move *UP* the list instead of *DOWN* the list. This would allow me to select the oldest unread (in the middle of the window) and work your way to the newest at the top of the window.
Does this help?

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This is already available, set the mail.delete_matches_sort_order pref.