Failed IMAP authorization when symbol "$" in the password

[SergeyVitchinov]

Steps to reproduce

1. Try to login nextcloud with IMAP
2. Your password must contain "$" symbol

Expected behaviour

Actual behaviour

Wrong username or password

Affected Authentication backend

Eg. FTP or IMAP or is it a general problem?

Server configuration

User External App version: 1.0.0

Operating system: Centos 7

Web server: nginx

Database: mariadb

PHP version: 7.3

Nextcloud version: 19.0.5

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install:

Where did you install Nextcloud from:

Signing status:

Signing status

Login as admin user into your Nextcloud and access
http://example.com/index.php/settings/integrity/failed
No errors have been found.

List of activated apps:

App list

If you have access to your command line run e.g.:
sudo -u www-data php occ app:list
from within your Nextcloud installation folder

Nextcloud configuration:

Config report

If you have access to your command line run e.g.:
sudo -u www-data php occ config:list system
from within your Nextcloud installation folder

or

Insert your config.php content here.
Make sure to remove all sensitive content such as passwords. (e.g. database password, passwordsalt, secret, smtp password, …)

Logs

Web server error log

Web server error log

Insert your webserver log here

Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)

Nextcloud log

Insert your Nextcloud log here

Browser log

Browser log

Insert your browser log here, this could for example include:

a) The javascript console log
b) The network log
c) ...

[Flachzange]

The same applies to other special characters, like ß, %, ü, ä, ö, etc.

Using the same password for the imap login directly works fine. Gave me some headache in the past when users reported login issues.

[Flachzange]

Any update here? This issue causes support effort besides the reduced password strength.

[goapunk]

I just ran into the same problem I think