Joe @ 3ZZZ put forth on 9/20/2010 12:47 PM:
I'm now installing dovecot 1.2.14 on my new server for use with vpopmail
- is this inadvisable; should I seek an alternative to dovecot if I want to stay with vpopmail?
Sure, switch (back?) to Courier, Cyrus, or UW-IMAP, assuming vpopmail works with all of their current versions. There are but a handful of decent *nix open source IMAP servers. There are a gazillion open source virtual user/domain management utilities.
If you are so faithfully wed to vpopmail out of said gazillion other options, which by your own admission you've only been using for a month, please, by all means, chuck Dovecot and convert all your mail to one of the other handful of *nix FOSS IMAP servers. It will be a much easier migration than grabbing 20 other management frontends, importing your user/domain data, and picking one you like that works with Dovecot 2.x.
/sarcasm
Veiled, idle, meaningless 'threats' often prompt sarcastic (or worse) replies. Sometimes none at all, as it's not worth some folks time. I had a few minutes. ;)
Hike up your skirt, Grab another front end from the gazillion of them out there, and get to work setting it up, instead of complaining that Dovecot doesn't work with 1 out of 1 gazillion management front ends.
-- Stan