{"id":17766,"date":"2026-03-16T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=17766"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:10:36","slug":"how-to-install-a-simple-independent-smtpd-server-on-your-macos-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/how-to-install-a-simple-independent-smtpd-server-on-your-macos-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install a Simple, Independent SMTPD Server on Your macOS Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/smptd-server-configuration-tutorial-mail-macos-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#Science #Technology #Weather #Meteorology #Tech #Scientific #Scientist<\/p>\n<p>As a web designer, have you been stymied by your inability to get sendmail\/postfix working on more recent versions of macOS? If so, maybe you need to take a different route. This step-by-step tutorial will help you install an SMTPD server on your machine, which is independent of macOS\u2019s built-in sendmail and postfix binaries. Visit this URL:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to Install a Simple, Independent SMTPD Server on Your macOS Computer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Single-Docs\/smptd-server-configuration-tutorial-macos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Single-Docs\/smptd-server-configuration-tutorial-macos.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Science #Technology #Weather #Meteorology #Tech #Scientific #Scientist As a web designer, have you been stymied by your inability to get sendmail\/postfix working on more recent versions of macOS? If so, maybe you need to take a different route. This step-by-step &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/how-to-install-a-simple-independent-smtpd-server-on-your-macos-computer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,8],"tags":[3792,20,5051,5052,1034,892,5053,5054,5055,2725,5056,5057,5058,5059,5060,5061,5062,5063],"class_list":["post-17766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-science","tag-macos","tag-bill-kochman","tag-binaries","tag-binary","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-install","tag-installation","tag-macports","tag-mail","tag-postfix","tag-send","tag-sendmail","tag-server","tag-simple","tag-smtpd","tag-transfer-protocol","tag-tutorial"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49552,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions\/49552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}