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<!--Broker will drop the message after the configured number of delivery attempts for each message.-->
	    <maximumRedeliveryAttempts>10</maximumRedeliveryAttempts>

Note that this is the above configuration specifies the total number of delivery attempts, not re-delivery attempts after the original delivery attempt. After the maximum number of re-delivery attempts are breached, the message is sent to the Dead Letter Channel. This is useful when the client application does not acknowledge the message because an operation on the message failed.

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