diff --git a/app/jobs/inboxes/fetch_imap_emails_job.rb b/app/jobs/inboxes/fetch_imap_emails_job.rb
index 9f69f32d7..c4537ca22 100644
--- a/app/jobs/inboxes/fetch_imap_emails_job.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/inboxes/fetch_imap_emails_job.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ class Inboxes::FetchImapEmailsJob < ApplicationJob
     fetch_mail_for_channel(channel)
     # clearing old failures like timeouts since the mail is now successfully processed
     channel.reauthorized!
-  rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED, Net::OpenTimeout, Net::IMAP::NoResponseError, Errno::ECONNRESET, Errno::ENETUNREACH, Net::IMAP::ByeResponseError
+  rescue *ExceptionList::IMAP_EXCEPTIONS
     channel.authorization_error!
   rescue EOFError => e
     Rails.logger.error e
diff --git a/lib/exception_list.rb b/lib/exception_list.rb
index 4aafdec15..fccc747c6 100644
--- a/lib/exception_list.rb
+++ b/lib/exception_list.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+require 'net/imap'
+
 module ExceptionList
   REST_CLIENT_EXCEPTIONS = [RestClient::NotFound, RestClient::GatewayTimeout, RestClient::BadRequest,
                             RestClient::MethodNotAllowed, RestClient::Forbidden, RestClient::InternalServerError,
@@ -8,4 +10,10 @@ module ExceptionList
   SMTP_EXCEPTIONS = [
     Net::SMTPSyntaxError
   ].freeze
+
+  IMAP_EXCEPTIONS = [
+    Errno::ECONNREFUSED, Net::OpenTimeout, Net::IMAP::NoResponseError,
+    Errno::ECONNRESET, Errno::ENETUNREACH, Net::IMAP::ByeResponseError,
+    SocketError
+  ].freeze
 end