The computer program product of claim 50, wherein the local reliable message features further comprise a buffer quota, which defines a maximum number of messages that will be buffered by the messaging infrastructure, a send timeout, which unblocks the send operation after the send timeout expires, a priority option, wherein higher priority messages are transmitted before lower priority messages, and a configurable poison message feature, wherein a number of times a message delivery is aborted is configurable to determine when the message is poison.