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rabbitmq-refused verified

Routing key for rejected incoming mail

in the configuration this is a linerabbitmq-refused:

Where messages the SMTP server refused are published, if they are to be kept at all.

Values

Values
any routing key
Default
· taken from the build
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

Empty by default, and that is the sane setting: the documentation warns that this queue is never drained by the engine, so under a flood of rejected mail it grows until the broker suffers. Anyone who turns it on is taking on the job of consuming it.