Disable message autoselect in OS X Mail Is there a way to stop Mail from automatically selecting messages? For example when I delete a message, it will immediately select the next one and mark it read. Then if I don't want to read the message yet, I need to mark it as unread.
Press option+delete or option+← to delete an email and not select the next email.

If you use an international keyboard: United states option key may be labelled alt and/or ⌥.