Search code examples
rubyauthenticationruby-on-rails-3.2imapsasl

Specified SASL mechanism not supported net/imap ruby

I am using ruby 1.9.3 for validating the email credentials using "net/imap" library. If I try to use the following code in rails console it works :-

imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.aol.com')
imap.authenticate('LOGIN', "[email protected]".split("@").first, "password")

But when I use it in Rails application it gives me an error :-

Specified SASL mechanism not supported.

This happens only in case of AOL, yahoo is working in both console and rails app.

Does anyone have in insight what it could be.

Thanks

Solution

  • I used imap.login in place of imap.authenticate. It worked like a charm.

    imap.login('user', 'passwd')