Nicholas Griffin

Now that 245 has been merged, I think this is now possible, once that change has been released to NPM (probably after Christmas now). The change will mean that you...

Thinking about this, I don't think this is actually an issue, yes we probably want a retry after an authentication timeout, it also defaults to `10000` and that can be...

I don't think health checking is a problem for this library to solve.

It shouldn't actually get to recieveMessage to if you immediately called stop after start note, as Poll has this at the top: ``` private poll(): void { if (this.stopped) {...

Hmm not sure about it not being called at all, I think if you call start(), you would want it to poll immediately, so I would say that is expected...

I would say an abort would probably be different functionality though, ie: you would call a new function `abort` rather than `stop` as sqs-consumer is used in the case where...

What you are explaining is what `stop` does in sqs-consumer, `start` imitates a poll which calls [ReceiveMessage](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ReceiveMessage.html), this will wait for the length of time configured in the option `waitTimeSeconds`,...

Thanks I am acknowledging / considering your thoughts here, I must also consider existing implementations is what I'm saying (in particular the BBC's), I've raised a new issue here: https://github.com/bbc/sqs-consumer/issues/346...

These changes look to have been approved (new settings dismissed it), will need a triage and update due to its age though.

It looks like the previous suggestion was that this library should be limited to 10 messages at a time: https://github.com/bbc/sqs-consumer/issues/96#issuecomment-340734863 I'm unsure if that's the best way of doing it...