Queue to receive messages not picked up by other queues

[ScottGibbons00]

Hello,

I am new to learning RabbitMQ, so please excuse me if this question is common. Am I able to configure a queue for all messages that do not go to any other queue? For example, I have one queue with binding key apples.* and another queue with binding key bananas.* and I am using topic exchange. If I send a message pears.eat or mango.slice to RabbitMQ, I would want these to go to this third queue. But messages like apples.eat would go to the first queue and not the third queue.

Thanks in advance!

[mkuratczyk]

Hi,

Yes, you can configure an alternate exchange: https://www.rabbitmq.com/ae.html. Once you configure it for the exchange you already have and bind the third queue to this new exchange, messages that don't match any of the bindings (neither apples.* nor bananas.*) will be routed through the alternate exchange to the third queue.

[ScottGibbons00]

Perfect! Thank you for the help and quick response.