Indeed. And the 'regular' alternative logins do have _somewhat_ limited access, but to be usable for pop/imap/smtp they have to be of type 'full access'. 'full

Indeed. And the 'regular' alternative logins do have _somewhat_ limited access, but to be usable for pop/imap/smtp they have to be of type 'full access'. 'full access' regular logins can do _everything_ but modify other alternative logins. If you happen to have domain admin rights added to your login (eg. not the main domain admin account), regular logins can even do that! I would probably pay double for an "imap/smtp only login" feature. ;)