Move RabbitMQ messages between queues

There are several reasons why it might be useful to move messages around. This includes quarantining messages which have ended up on a dead letter queue or sending messages to an alternative exchange / queue for further processing.

Use RabbitMQ’s shovel plugin

1. Go to the shovel management interface {RABBIT_MQ_HOST}/#/dynamic-shovels.

2. Under add a new shovel:

   1. enter the source and destination queue

   2. it’s usually desirable to set the Auto-delete option to “After initial length transferred” unless this is a repeated task.

   3. Setting the Acknowledgement mode to “On publish” seems to be needed for simple queue->queue moves

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   4. click Add shovel to save the shovel