Is there a way to stop Mail from opening the next message?

Hi,
Since downloading Lion when checking mail it will automatically open the next email. This has gotten me in trouble a couple of times as I wanted to not open them until a later time but once opened I needed to respond. Someone mentioned shrinking the screen but not sure what that meant.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Another solution, perhaps -
With the message you did not want to read as the selected message, go to the Message menu and select "as Unread" from te 'Mark' submenu.
Also, if it is a matter of deleting a message and not wanting another message to automatically be opened next -
Select the message you want to delete. Hold down Option and press Delete - the selected message will be immediately deleted (not moved to the Trash), and no other message will be opened.

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