[rabbitmq-discuss] fanout exchange that does not keep messages

Mon Jul 20 17:10:53 BST 2009

Brian Whitman wrote:
> I am concerned about this because over the weekend the broker crashed
> (not sure why yet, but I assume it had something to do with probably
> ~50m messages sitting in the exchange.) How can I have messages be
> completely transient?

This is done with the "immediate" flag for a message; if there is no
recipient, the message will be dropped.

-h