-bH

Purge persistent host status V8.8 and later

The -bH command-line switch causes sendmail to clear (purge) all the persistent host-status information that was being saved as a result of the HostStatusDirectory option (HostStatusDirectory on page 1037). Note that the HostStatusDirectory directory is not itself removed, but all the subdirectories under it are. The purgestat(1) (purgestat (V8.8 or Later) on page 223) command-line command is a synonym for this switch.

Note that beginning with V8.10, sendmail only purges host-status files that exceed the timeout set by the Timeout.hoststatus option (Timeout.hoststatus (V8.8 and later) on page 1103).

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