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How Dead Letter Subscriptions Relate to Regular Subscriptions
The following describes the way in which dead letter subscriptions are affected by regular subscriptions for the same event type.
*If the Broker permits identical subscriptions to a regular event and a dead letter event. In this situation, the dead letter subscribers simply never receive any events.
*If a wildcard definition in a dead letter subscription overlaps with that of a regular subscription, the Broker distributes events that match the regular subscriptions to the appropriate clients and then routes the others to the dead letter subscriber.
*An event type can have more than one dead letter subscriber.