Re: flexfax: How stable is Hylafax 4.1 beta2 ?

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

"Paul van der Vlis" <E.P.van.der.Vlis@inter.nl.net> writes:

> I installed Hylafax 4.1 beta2 because it is shipped with Suse Linux 6.3.
> First I wondered about the name "beta2", but some really good software will
> always stay "beta" and will never become "perfect" ;-)
> 
> I want to use Hylafax in a very serious organisation (a notary office).
> 
> Dmitry Bely told me about RTN problems with Hylafax and some fax-machines
> (Canon e.g.) what will make Hylafax send the page over and over again. He
> wrote a patch for this problem, but I do not find this patch at
> http://www.hylafax.org/patches/. After some searching I found it in the
> mailing archive: http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2000-03/msg00110.php.

Do not use this! It was just an experimental patch. Since then I've made
more complete and accurate one, published in hylafax-devel. Hope it will
be integrated into 4.1 beta 3.

> How serious is this problem ?

You will be constantly called by angry people asking: "why should I receive
the same page 10 times???" :-)))

> How stable is Hylafax 4.1 beta2 ?

Quite stable. I currently use it in the production environment.

> Is it maybe better to use Hylafax 4.0 ?

The bug is there since very first release of Hylafax :-)

> Is there a new binary planned with Dmitry Bely's patch ?

Maybe 4.1 beta 3

> Sorry for all these questions ;-)

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry