How do I get Cyrus to "know" what directory to look in for this user's mail?
Cyrus doesn't use maildir, and will not store mail in a user's home directory. It's a black box. Mine keeps all mail in /var/spool/cyrus. Mail comes in via LMTP, gets filtered with Sieve, and goes out via IMAP or POP. There is no support for directly accessing the message data using programs other than cyrus, except through those protocols.
'Course, every message IS stored in a plain text file, and folder indexes are easy to rebuild using the reconstruct tool if you need to manually fiddle with a mailbox. Though doing this is NOT "officially recommended," I've never had a problem doing it.
I think Courier gives you some more flexibility, and is probably easier to get set up in the first place, and might be a decent choice if performance is not your most important criteria. But there are some real advantages to using Cyrus, too. The performance is very good compared to other solutions. Sieve is very nice. Duplicate delivery suppression is very nice, especially if you have several hundred people, all members of multiple local lists and most of them habitually cross-posting...
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