# Yahoo Groups Importation Errors

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/yahoo-groups-importation-errors/136277
**Category:** Migration
**Created:** [December 17, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/yahoo-groups-importation-errors/136277 "2019-12-17T03:13:52Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/yahoo-groups-importation-errors/136277/2 "2019-12-17T05:20:30Z")

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You are using the mbox script’ right? Worked well for me with no errors. Attachments are missing but not the end of the world in my case.

> [@Migrate a mailing list to Discourse (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, etc)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773):
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> This guide is for you if you want to migrate a mailing list to Discourse. It also contains instructions for importing messages from [image] Google Groups. 1. Importing using Docker container This is the recommended way for importing content from your mailing lists into Discourse. 1.1. Installing Discoursebulb The import script most likely won’t work on systems with less than 4GB of RAM. Recommended are 8GB of RAM or more. You can scale back the RAM usage after the import if you like. …

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