Why do I get the error 'can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied' when restarting Sendmail?

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You should first check the permissions on the following files:

# ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
-r-xr-sr-x root smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

# ls -l /var/spool
drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue 

If your permissions are mis-matched, you can modify them by doing the following:

# chown root.smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
# chm...

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