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The default redeliver policy will use the following values:

• maximumRedeliveries=65
• initialRedeliveryDelay=1000L (1 second)
• maximumRedeliveryDelay = 60 * 1000L (60 seconds, new option in Camel 1.4)
• And the exponential backoff and collision avoidance is turned off.

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The maximum redeliveries is the number of re delivery attempts. By default Camel will try to process the exchange 1 + 6 5 times. 1 time for the normal attempt and then 6 5 attempts as redeliveries.
Setting the maximumRedeliveries to a negative value such as -1 will then always redelivery (unlimited).
Setting the maximumRedeliveries to 0 will disable any re delivery attempt.

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