# how to import my contact lists?
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [January 26, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479 "2015-01-26T11:39:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@samuel\_gimenez](https://forum.mautic.org/u/samuel_gimenez)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/1 "2015-01-26T11:39:21Z")
Hello,
I’ve just begun using Mautic. I’d like to know how to import my contact lists.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@samuel\_gimenez](https://forum.mautic.org/u/samuel_gimenez)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/2 "2015-01-26T11:39:21Z")
Hello,
I’ve just begun using Mautic. I’d like to know how to import my contact lists.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@gmillard](https://forum.mautic.org/u/gmillard)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/3 "2015-01-30T04:38:13Z")
Hi Samuel!
We just added the feature to import leads via a csv file. Its in Github and will be part of the next packaged release.
Thanks,
Alan
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### Author:  [@samuel\_gimenez](https://forum.mautic.org/u/samuel_gimenez)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/4 "2015-02-05T09:03:27Z")
Thank You Alan!!
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### Author:  [@solacetech](https://forum.mautic.org/u/solacetech)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/5 "2015-02-14T00:47:18Z")
I tried importing my contacts from gmail and received these results:
1. Exporting my contacts as an Exchange CSV file first resulted in Mautic reading the file and my property fields but importing 0 contacts.
2. Exporting my contacts as a Google CSV file resulted in Mautic reading the file, connecting the proper fields and importing all of my select contacts! Very happy, thank you.
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### Author:  [@gmillard](https://forum.mautic.org/u/gmillard)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/6 "2015-02-15T01:26:08Z")
Glad one worked for you 🙂 The importer is simply using the defaults for PHP’s fgetcsv which are
```auto
$delimiter = ","
$enclosure = '"'
$escape = ""
```
But you do bring inadvertently bring up a good point that we should add those as configurable options to the importer for non-default formats.
Thanks!
Alan
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### Author:  [@alliance1986](https://forum.mautic.org/u/alliance1986)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/7 "2015-03-12T10:40:52Z")
I can’t import the subscribers in the list
how to do it?
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### Author:  [@blizzBlazz](https://forum.mautic.org/u/blizzBlazz)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/8 "2017-01-26T20:48:21Z")
Hello,
If I have duplicates, will Mautic ignore those? For example, I may have the same contact in 2 different lists when I’m importing. I want to make sure that this contact doesn’t get added 2 times so that they don’t receive 2 emails every time i send a campaign
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### Author:  [@ninjoan](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ninjoan)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/9 "2017-01-27T00:32:13Z")
Mautic will ignore the duplicate contacts
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### Author:  [@silavapi](https://forum.mautic.org/u/silavapi)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-import-my-contact-lists/1479/10 "2020-02-02T23:00:31Z")