My linux is Redhat AS3 U3, openssl is 0.9.7a-33

I downloaded dovecot 0.99.14 src rpm and rebuild to binary rpm

Everything went smooth but I tried to install the dovecot binary rpm, it reported that

openssl need >= 0.9.7f-4

 

Since there are many other rpm packages have dependency on the current version of openssl 0.9.7a-33, so

It's not possible to upgrade openssl to 0.9.7f-4 or greater

 

Is it a must to use openssl 0.9.7f-4 or greater in order to use dovecot 0.99.14 ?