Access to Zarfa fails on long/complex password (special characters)

[phillip...@gmail.com]

Dear Developer(s),

I recently changed the password (it is a long and complex one) of my Active Directory account (SAMBA4). This serves as a authentication service for various services in my environment like Zarafa, Postfix, ownCloud etc.

I recognized that some mobile applications as well as desktop applications where struggling with my new password. I reported the issue and developers of these affected apps have identified and fixed a problem where their code was not dealing well with certain special characters in passwords.

My new, long and complex password consist of these characters:
a-zA-Z
0-9
|
=
#
§
~
@
+
%

It is 30 characters long.

I just reported this issue to Mozilla/Thunderbird because I am having authentication problems here as well:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1129468

Today I wanted to give tz-push a try but it fails to authenticate with my Zarafa. I suspect a problem on the side of tz-push because my mobile phones (Android) do play well with my Zarafa (z-push) with my current password.

I would like to ask you to check your code as well whether it might struggle with special characters in passwords or the length of the passwords.

Thanks and best regards

Phillip