[rabbitmq-discuss] alternate exchange

Thu Feb 16 11:11:32 GMT 2012

Hi Steven,

On 16/02/12 10:38, Steven Taylor wrote:
> Will Rabbit try to first deliver an unrouted message to the same rout on
> the alternate exchange. 

The routing logic will only fall back to the alternative exchange if the
message could not be routed to any queue (or the message was marked as
immediate and it cannot be delivered to any consumer). The message
routing key(s) do not change during any of these routing attempts.

-Emile