I'd suggest you go and get the latest release from http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ and compile it youself to make sure it's all upto date. vm-8.1.1 is a bit old, though 8.1.2 is the latest stable release. I'd suggest you goto 8.2.0b instead, since it's actually quite stable.
The make errors might be because you need to use 'gmake' instead. I think the install docs talk about the gnu make requirement. John
