This procedure can be used to move a imap folder between users on a server (or between servers).
copy imap folder over.
chown all to cyrus:mail
make sure there's a cyrus.header file in there, (touch and chown it if not)
stop cyrus
/usr/lib/cyrus/reconstruct -rf user.newuser
start cyrus
dam = delete acl on mailbox, sam = set acl on mailbox