The documentations simple say: anonymous wrote : 5.6.2.1.6. MaxDeliveryAttempts | | The maximum number of times delivery of a message will be attempted before sending the message to the DLQ, if configured. If set to -1 (the default), the value from the ServerPeer config is used. Any other setting overrides the value set on the ServerPeer config. Setting DefaultMaxDeliveryAttempts in ServerPeer configuration to high value also not work. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246653#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...