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Hi all,

I'm working on a bulk importer, where I can paste a list of emails, and the system adds the ones that aren't already in CIVI.

I've parsed the emails and I have an array of emails. I want to test if they are already known in the system.

I've seen the api to test for one email:

    civicrm_initialize(TRUE);
    $params = array ('email'  => 'dave.green@example.org');

    // Define which values we want to retrieve. $return_properties must be an assoc array
    $return_properties = array( 'first_name' => 1,
                                'last_name' => 1,
                                'email' => 1,
                                'phone' => 1,
                                'postal_code' => 1,
                                'state_province' =>1,
                                'country' => 1 );

    // Search API returns a nested array with requested return_properties
    list($myContacts,$dontCare) = crm_contact_search( $params, $return_properties);
...

But I'd like to avoid fetching them one by one and fetch all the contacts at once. Is it possible with the api/BAO ? Is there a doc on the search class ? Not very clear right now about how it works and what are the value you can put in the params.

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Hi,

Thanks.

For now, I loop through each email and get the contact. Not a big deal if the number of email imported isn't too big I suppose.

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