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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ signal-cli can run in daemon mode and provides an experimental dbus interface.
 
 ### MacOS
 
+==== MacOS and signal-cli
+
 MacOS users can run the following commands if needed:
 
 ```shell
@@ -37,6 +39,18 @@ brew services restart dbus
 export DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET=$(launchctl getenv DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET)
 ```
 
+Note that this will work only from a normal Macintosh desktop session.
+
+==== MacOS and dbus-send
+
+In order for `dbus-send` to work correctly, it needs to either be started from a terminal within a normal Mac desktop session, or it needs to have the environment variable `DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS` set correctly.
+
+The command to set the environment variable is:
+
+```
+export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=$DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET
+```
+
 ### System bus
 
 To run on the system bus you need to take some additional steps.