# Wildcards

Wildcards in the `import` property obey EMS syntax and semantics (not Rendezvous syntax and semantics).

For more information, see Destination Name—Syntax and Semantics.

EMS clients cannot subscribe to wildcard queues—however, you can define wildcards queues in the EMS server for the purpose of property inheritance. That is, you can configure a static queue named `foo`.* and set properties on it, so that child queues named `foo.bar` and `foo.baz` will both inherit those properties.

If you define a queue that imports `foo`.*, `tibemsd` begins importing all matching messages from Rendezvous. As messages arrive, `tibemsd` creates dynamic child queues (for example, `foo.bar` and `foo.baz`) and delivers the messages to them. Notices that `tibemsd` delivers messages to these dynamic child queues even when no consumers exist to drain them.

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