Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFax 4.1.7 and RedHat 9

["Josh Welch" <jwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

marthter said:

<snip>

> I used
>
> rpm -i --nodeps hylafax-4.1.7-1rh9.i386.rpm
>
> and have seen no ill effects at run time, so perhaps the metamail
> dependency is either false, or only crops up when using certain specific
> features of hylafax (FaxDispatch comes to mind).
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Martin

Come to think of it, you are correct. Hylafax uses metamail for delivery of
attached faxes, i.e. PDF or TIFF, rather than the standard email with the
link to the document on the fax server. So, if you did not need this
functionality metamail is optional.

Thanks,
Josh


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