I have Thunderbird to take me to the next message when I hit the delete 
key, and I use the preview pane instead of opening a new tab or window 
by pressing the enter key, so I'm not sure the following will work. I'm 
also not sure where you've already looked or what you've already tried, 
so I apologize if you've already tried the following.

In the Edit pull down, I bring up Preferences. Note this is on Linux, 
and this may be in the Tools pulldown in Windows. In the Preferences 
application I go to the Advanced options and over to the Reading and 
Display page. Here you'll see a setting for "Close message window/tab on 
delete". On my system this is unchecked. Try checking this and see if 
you get the behavior you want.

On 12/12/2013 12:23 PM, harry brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> I had to get rid of windows live mail yesterday, because it screwed up
> my sending and receiving messages, and I didn't do anything to mess it up.
> So, I got Thunderbird.
> Here's the problem, and I need an answer for this.
> Of course, I hit enter to read an email, but when I press the delete
> key, it doesn't take me back to the list, it takes me automatically,
> into the next email, which I don't want to do.
> What I want to do is, delete the message I was reading, and go
> automatically, back to the list of messages.
> Someone please tell me how to do that.
> Harry
>
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