Specified SASL mechanism not supported net/imap ruby

Question

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', "username@aol.com".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

Answer 1

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

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