Hello christian,
I think that those differences comes from my email setup. In my case, I'm using Zarafa for viewing my emails.
So, for fetching emails using IMAP with Zarafa, only the username is needed. But, when sending an email, since I'm using Zentyal's default SMTP server, the full email is needed (otherwise I'm not able to send emails).
Still, you may be right on the ports. On my side, only TLS is active on my SMTP.
Best,
Marcus