firefox/thunderbird

[DavidFourer]

It should be a simple matter to import addresses into thundirbird.  I'm
using the build of Thunderbird that came on the ubuntu 5.10 install CD.
The import menu doesn't help (though it does import my address book). 




The thunderbird help files say the mail files are located somewhere
like: ..../defaults/profiles/mail_file_name.  



I found: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/defaults/profile/ but can't find
"defaults"

I found the firefox profile, containing my bookmarks, at:

/etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/

What is the source of this confusion?  Is this because I'm using the
ubuntu build of thunderbird?  Should I uninstall this and try manually
installing from the Mozilla site?  



I like Thunderbird because it has HTML editing support, such as colored
text and fonts and in-line linkage to web jpg files.  Basically, I can
compose an email with some graphics and a photo or two.  If there is a
way to do this with Evolution I would like to know about it.  



By the way, what is meant by the expression "~/.folder_name"  I would
really appreciate someone explaining that to me.  Thank you.  



David


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DavidFourer