How do I set a number of retry attempts in RabbitMQ?

Question

I am using RabbitMQ and I have a queue that holds email messages. My consumer service de-queues messages and attempts to send them. If, for any reason, my consumer cannot se

Answer 1

From my perspective the better idea here is to implement a combination of dead-letter exchange and retry logic inside of the consumer. If the consumer fails to handle the message then you put a message into a DeadLetterQueue

Bellow you can find a prototype of dead-letter-exchange implemented with node-amqp and Rabbitmq https://github.com/kharandziuk/dead-letter-exchange-prototype.