# Importing contacts without triggering campaign
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/importing-contacts-without-triggering-campaign/9723
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [October 17, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/importing-contacts-without-triggering-campaign/9723 "2017-10-17T15:38:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Roblopes](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Roblopes)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/importing-contacts-without-triggering-campaign/9723/1 "2017-10-17T15:38:30Z")
Hi,
I am importing my contacts from MailChimp to my confirmed segment (I do double optin). Since all these contacts already received all my autoresponder emails in Mailchimp, I don’t want them to receive the emails configured in one of my campaigns in Mautic (same emails as in MailChimp). I tried and noticed that there is no way to configure the import to ignore he existing campaigns. How do you guys do to avoid that situation? I was thinking about creating a tag like “Imported”, and put as a condition in the top of the campaign, but I want new autoresponder emails to be sent to them, actually. Was thinking about turning off the campaign before import, and turning back on after importing, but I guess that it won’t work.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rob
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### Author:  [@Roblopes](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Roblopes)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/importing-contacts-without-triggering-campaign/9723/2 "2017-10-17T15:38:30Z")
Hi,
I am importing my contacts from MailChimp to my confirmed segment (I do double optin). Since all these contacts already received all my autoresponder emails in Mailchimp, I don’t want them to receive the emails configured in one of my campaigns in Mautic (same emails as in MailChimp). I tried and noticed that there is no way to configure the import to ignore he existing campaigns. How do you guys do to avoid that situation? I was thinking about creating a tag like “Imported”, and put as a condition in the top of the campaign, but I want new autoresponder emails to be sent to them, actually. Was thinking about turning off the campaign before import, and turning back on after importing, but I guess that it won’t work.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rob
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### Author:  [@petertl](https://forum.mautic.org/u/petertl)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/importing-contacts-without-triggering-campaign/9723/3 "2017-10-18T05:08:13Z")
It is hard to tell how your DOI process was built. But if you are importing leads, there is no automatism which puts your new leads into your DOI process - except you have a segment like “all contact which don’t have a DOI flag/tag”. Then you would have to make sure to set this flag when you import the leads.
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### Author:  [@Roblopes](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Roblopes)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/importing-contacts-without-triggering-campaign/9723/4 "2017-10-18T15:57:01Z")
@PeterTL, thanks for the post. I’ve been banging my head on this, and I think that the only way to do that is creating a tag and filtering it in the campaign. I tested and worked like a charm. Thanks!