Ah. I've just seen the following Jira which suggests that "lazySessionCreation" was only implemented for the producer.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-3853 -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Route-failure-on-startup-for-SMPP-consumer-if-SMSC-down-tp5730666p5730667.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.