sendmail Permissions on 12.04.1

[Tim Evans]

Realize this is swimming upstream, given that postfix is the default MTA 
nowadays, but I have a complex sendmail config I need to recreate from 
an old RedHat system.

There seem to be permissions issues--the sendmailconfig program 
(executing /etc/mail/Makefile) can't write the access db to /etc/mail 
(it can write other files there, including sendmail.cf).  Similarly, 
/var/spool/mqueue can't be written to by sendmail either.

Anyone know of this, and how to address it?
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