# Importing Contacts From Mailchimp

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/importing-contacts-from-mailchimp/86741>\
**Category:** Email Marketing Tool\
**Tags:** starter\
**Created:** [August 3, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/importing-contacts-from-mailchimp/86741 "2023-08-03T11:50:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Nadshocter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4da419/32.png) [@Nadshocter](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Nadshocter)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/importing-contacts-from-mailchimp/86741/1 "2023-08-03T11:50:43Z")

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I am wanting to import my contacts from Mailchimp but these contacts all came from my Hubspot customer list in the first place. However if anyone has unsubscribed, I don’t want to email them again now with this import.

Will Hubpsot duplicate my contacts? Or will it update the contacts as Marketing or not Marketing with the import?

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**Author:** ![TomM2](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tomm2/32/70887_2.png) [@TomM2](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TomM2)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/importing-contacts-from-mailchimp/86741/2 "2023-08-03T12:21:31Z")

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Hey @Nadshocter if they’re regularly imported in HubSpot and marked as a marketing contact they will be able to be emailed. If you want to sync up your mailchimp unsubscribes with HubSpot, you should export them from mailchimp and import them as an [opt-out list](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/import-an-opt-out-list) in HubSpot.

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**Author:** ![Nadshocter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4da419/32.png) [@Nadshocter](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Nadshocter)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/importing-contacts-from-mailchimp/86741/3 "2023-08-08T12:33:40Z")

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Yeah but they all came from Hubspot. What I am wanting to know is if it is possible to clean out the bounced emails and remove them from Hubspot without doing that manually. We are finding that a lot of our contacts have changed since covid and this is giving us a poor bounce rate but it is just that people have left the company.

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**Author:** ![TomM2](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tomm2/32/70887_2.png) [@TomM2](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TomM2)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/importing-contacts-from-mailchimp/86741/4 "2023-08-08T13:48:52Z")

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You can indeed! You can actually pretty easily create a bounced list in HubSpot to find your contacts who have hard bounced in your CRM and decide from there if you wish to delete them! There’s a great article on it here:

> **[Delete contacts who no longer receive your marketing emails](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/marketing-email/how-can-i-delete-contacts-who-have-unsubscribed-or-hard-bounce)**
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> To remove your ineligible contacts from HubSpot, create a segment of contacts who hard bounced on your sent marketing emails.