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title: "Dead Letter Emitter"
slug: "dead-letter-emitter-node"
updated: 2022-01-21T22:41:10Z
published: 2022-01-21T22:41:10Z
canonical: "docs.echo.stream/dead-letter-emitter-node"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.echo.stream/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dead Letter Emitter

There is one Dead Letter Emitter Node that is created for your Tenant when you create your Tenant.

Dead letters occur when the `maxReceiveCount` (aka - number of delivery attempts) that was set on one or more of your Edges has been exceeded. When this occurs, the message will be emitted from the Dead Letter Emitter Node as en `echo.text` message.

> NOTE - Edges that do not have a `maxReceiveCount` set will *never* trigger the Dead Letter Emitter Node, as such Edges retry message delivery to their target Node forever!

You may create a Node that can receive the `echo.text` message type to further process any dead letters. The use cases for such processing are application specific.