Found the problem with "sendfax" and "textfmt" that cause the error message:
Font metrics file not found: .afmFont Courier: /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/.afm: Can not open font metrics file; using fixed widths. "textfmt" requires the package afm-1.0 Adobe Font Metrics to be installed. Which was not installed when I installed hylafax PS hylafax also required ghostscript-9.06p1 GNU PostScript interpreter ghostscript-fonts-8.11p2 35 standard PostScript fonts with Adobe name aliases Which also are not automatically installed. I can see why the choice was made not to install them by default, but a hint that they would be needed to use "sendfax" would have been nice. Once the packages are installed then "faxsetup" configures "textfmt" correctly.