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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve done a little searching via Google to retrieve the number of Unacked messages via the RabbitMQ client API. Most threads say it’s not possible.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have an explanation or, even better, a solution?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">FYI I’m using C# .Net – this code returns the number of Ready messages.</p>
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