[Solved] Migrating from Zimbra command: carbonio prov -l ca email@address {SSHA512} not working anymore

I created a script to export users from zimbra 8.8.15 and to import users into my carbonio. Within this script I use the following

carbonio prov ca $email 
carbonio prov -l ma $email userPassword "$password"

The $password variable is the {SSHA512} string that I exported from zimbra.

I tested this in december and now that I am ready to do migration it doesn't work anymore. It looks like this command

carbonio prov ca $email

needs a password and that this 

carbonio prov -l ma $email userPassword "$password"

says that the password is too long.

I am almost sure this worked in carbonio version 23.x when I was testing. I am using version 24.1.0 now. Am I doing something wrong ?

please advise