What happens when I destroy a message?

When you destroy a message, you destroy the handle but not the underlying message. The underlying message is destroyed only when ToolTalk is done with it and all the external handles are destroyed. For example, if you destroy a handle to a message immediately after you send it, you will get a new handle when the reply comes back.

However, once you destroy a message, the ToolTalk service will not show it to you again under any circumstances. For example, if you register a pattern to observe a request you send and then destroy the message when your pattern matches it, you will not see the message when it is in state "handled" (that is, when it is a reply).