Gilles Lamiral
Imapsync Expert at Gilles LAMIRAL
Goven, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolGilles Lamiral is an Imapsync expert and seasoned Unix systems engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience in Linux, Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, Samba and PostgreSQL. He develops and supports imapsync, a migration tool that enables over 160 million IMAP mailbox transfers per year, and teaches system administration to practitioners and teams. Early work building monitoring tools at Orange Business Services and development in C, Fortran and Perl gave him a pragmatic, durable approach—he still relies on tooling he created two decades ago. Based in Goven, Brittany, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with a commitment to sharing knowledge, making complex migrations reliable and repeatable for organizations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BTS, Électronique, BTS, Électronique at Lycée Richelieu de Rueil MalmaisonMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ecole nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, French, English
Stackoverflow
149reputation
6kreached
6answers
1question
Github Skills (61)
imap10
upstream10
smtp10
perl10
migration10
pop310
backup10
mailbox10
protocols10
migrate10
unix9
linux9
bash9
traffic9
macos8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
imapsync/imapsync
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is
Contributions:5 reviews, 49 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 4 months
pop3upstreammailboxbackupimap
gilleslamiral/hello-world
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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