Hi, We have a simple test where we send a poison message into the queue and the expected behavior of the message being moved to the DLQ is not observed. The message just sits in the original target queue. The message is processed 5 times on the consumer side. No RedeliveryPolicy is set, so the assumption is that the defaults are being used where the maximumDeliveries is set to 6. Given that we would expect that the message would be processed 1 more time then we are seeing. We then send in 10 "non poison" messages. The "poison" message is redelivered 2 more times and then finally flushed to the DLQ. If you repeat the above (send poison, send 10 non-poison) the same is observed. Is this expected behavior? Below is our Configuration. From random postings around this topic it seems like we have it right. Perhaps our expectation of the functionality is different then actual? -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Poison-Message-not-getting-to-DLQ-without-assistance-tp4654983.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.