[Dovecot] Problem installing latest dovecot w vpopmail

[Joe @ 3ZZZ]

Quoting "Joe @ 3ZZZ" <joe at 3zzz.net>:

> Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
>
>> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 08:47 -0700, Joe @ 3ZZZ wrote:
>>>
>>> configure: error: vpopmail support is broken. fix it or access its db
>>> another way.
>>>
>>> however, vpopmail seems to be working fine, i can add domains from
>>> vpopmail/bin/vadddomain and they show up in the database just fine.
>>> So why do I receive this error and how can i troubleshoot?
>>
>> It means that people kept telling me all the time that running Dovecot
>> with vpopmail crashes, so I got tired of it and just disabled it
>> entirely until someone figures out what to do to fix it.
>>
>
> Thanks for your reply Timo!
>
> Does this apply only to dovecot 2.x or also 1.x ?
>
> It seems to be working well for me (so far)  on the 1.2.1  
> installation with vpopmail, but i've only been using it in  
> production just over a month (despite installing it quite some time  
> ago).  Is there something I should be worried about or looking for?

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?

Thanks for any advice.
Joe