[Evolution-users] "Go to the previous message after message deletion" preference not honored

[Luigi Cantoni]

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 22:40 -0500, Doug Steinfeld wrote:
> I have installed Evolution 3.58.3 from Flathub.  Thank you for
> initiating my education on Ubuntu LTS package maintenance.
> 
> To answer other questions:
> 1) Message list not threaded/grouped
> 2) Message list sorted by Date, latest first
> 3) I have an email open.  That is, I've double clicked an email in the
> main Evolution window.
> 4) If the opened email is in the middle of the list and "Go to the
> previous message after message deletion" is not checked then the window
> remains open and the next oldest email is displayed.  If the option is
> checked then the next newest email is displayed.  So you are correct
> that this is a bimodal option and controls whether the newer or older
> email is opened.
> 
> The behavior that I want is that the window that's displaying the email
> is closed upon delete.  Since I don't use a threaded display, generally
> emails adjacent to each other in the list are not related.  So after
> deleting I just want to go back to the list window.

I agree with Doug's comments. I also sort etc like him and a 3 state
button would be best.
Previous/ Next/ None.

Like Doug none is what makes sense to me for my case.

-- 
Thanks - Luigi
> 
> On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 12:37 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have the "Go to the previous message after message deletion"
> > > preference unchecked, yet when I have a mail message open and click
> > > the
> > > delete icon the message is deleted and the previous message opens.
> > 
> > What are you expecting to happen?
> > 
> > I may be wrong (as I'm not a developer), but this a bimodal option -
> > i.e. it's either the previous or next message - it's certainly
> > possible
> > that the "next" message in the list after a deletion is actually what
> > you think of as the "previous" message as it can depend on things
> > like
> > threading.
> > 
> > P.
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