This is a pretty bad habit and is unnecessary, even in debug mode.

This would avoid people getting their credentials being posted on the net when 
wanting to help (cf: #198 ). Nor people catching on your screen the password as 
you span through your log, or prevent you from storing full imap logs on log 
period for whatever rare bug you are chasing... etc ... If there is a need to 
show this content for debugging, I guess it should be activated manually by 
decommenting a line in the code, to show that you know exactly what you want to 
see.

The whole security of a system is lowered to the weakest link. Please don't let 
``offlineimap`` be this link here.

I generally assume that logs SHOULD NOT contain plain text passwords.

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