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How to enable sendmail; sendmail: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied

Came across a problem on a new LAMP server.  My migrated WordPress installation wouldn’t send emails.

I noticed the following error in /etc/httpd/logs/error_log:

sendmail: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied

Here’s how to fix it:

postfix permission denied