I've searched high and low for an answer. This seems so simple...

Domain = chadmccan.com
Server 1 = admin.mo.chadmccan.com
Server 2 = leroy.mo.chadmccan.com

Email for my domain is handled by Google Apps. MX records point there, I receive a ton of email there.

I have 2 systems. admin.mo.chadmccan.com, which is designed to be the "gateway" for all services, including email.

On the same network, is leroy.mo.chadmccan.com. It's just an application server, for random apps, including a webserver.

I'm using submit.mc (submit.cf) for relaying through admin.

/etc/submit.mc
/etc/aliases
Leroy runs logwatch and emails logwatch to "root" every night. The mail is accepted by admin, then a bounce is generated to root@leroy.mo.chadmccan.com. I never receive the email.

I just want all of my systems to email anything that goes to "root" to blahblah@chadmccan.com relaying via admin.mo.chadmccan.com. Is this impossible?

Look into smarthost directive for sendmail.mc

That's essentially what the is doing.

I don't want to run the full sendmail daemon on these systems, since the only thing they need to do, is email me a logwatch file. The problem is they aren't respecting the aliases file.

This makes sense. Sounds like I'm running down the wrong path. I wonder if a .forward will work?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...topped-687499/

Another thought:

Are you building the aliases database, once you make changes to /etc/aliases?