[rabbitmq-discuss] redelivered count

Wed Dec 8 00:47:21 GMT 2010

With basic.reject now being implemented, I'd definitely like to see
"dead letter" queues get a priority. Agree they fit well the TTLs.

-J

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Matthias Radestock
<matthias at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
> Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to see the new queue TTLs extended to handle this...specify a
>> message's lifetime by redeliver count instead of/in addition to age. I
>> think the redeliver count would still be useful information for a
>> consumer to know, but it seems to me the broker should be handling the
>> mechanics of expiration.
>
> Before we add yet more ways for messages to disappear from a queue, we want
> to introduce a means by which they can disappear to somewhere other than the
> ether. i.e. dead-letter exchanges. Which we will probably implement at some
> point.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias.
>