Transfer e-mail addresses from Internet Explorer to Thunderbird

I have been using Internet Explorer and AT&T for all on-line uses including e-mail.
I am admittedly somewhat novice, so I need someone to "walk" me through the process of getting all my e-mail addresses transferred over to Mozilla and Thunderbird. Please help!

I think you will need to go the AT&T website, open your email account there and look for an option to export your address book to one or more files.
Thunderbird's Address Book can use LDIF, CSV and vCard (.vcf) formats. CSV ("comma separated values") is probably the most likely candidate. If it lets you export a whole address book to a vcf file, that may be the cleanest option. You may need an add-on:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
to be able import the vcf file into Thunderbird.
CSV works, but there is always a mismatch between field names and their locations. The import tool in Thunderbird lets you re-order and re-align the imported data to suit its own address book data fields, but the process is not obvious or intuitive. Another gotcha is that it imports only a limited number of fields (20 IIRC) so you may need to be selective in what you select for importation.
See the bit about Address Books here:
http://www.ramsden.org.uk/11_Thunderbird_Settings_and_the_Profile.html
Pay attention to where the email addresses themselves go; often they end up in the "nickname" field and so don't appear in Thunderbird when it's asked to suggest or list your Contacts.

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