What is the difference between a regular email and a template, other than the folder they reside in?
A template in TB looks and acts like any email. - What is the difference between a regular email and a template? - Why can't you just save a regular email to the template folder and reuse it?
Alla svar (2)
A template is an email that you have saved so you can use it over and over again instead of retyping the same thing again.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Using_Templates
This is what I thought also. When I hear the word "template" I think of the templates used in wordprocessor's, which are completely different animal.