Hey Michael, it turns out that the activemq broker actually does not proactively purge expired messages from queues. The broker will not send expired messages to consumers, but if there are no consumers consuming from the queue, expired messages just sit.
Today I made a similar post: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-purge-old-messages-when-no-consumer-exists--tt22745203.html Have you implemented a workaround of some kind? -Elliot -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Expired-messages-are-not-being-removed-from-queues-tp21967682p22747936.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.