As the name itself suggests, the bitbucket channel simply deletes any message enqueued to it. Indeed, messages that match the bitbucket channel are instantly deleted, without even being written to a bitbucket disk area. (In particular, note that no PMDF_QUEUE:[bitbucket]* (OpenVMS) or /pmdf/queue/bitbucket/* (UNIX) or C:\pmdf\queue\bitbucket\* (NT) message files are created---a message is simply discarded immediately once PMDF sees that it matches the bitbucket channel.)