Hello, l am new to mattermost and l find it lovely. l want to use REST API to send direct message to a user. When there is a direct message already opened, or had been opened with that user, REST API works. curl -i -X POST -d ‘payload={“channel”: “@[USERID]”, “text”: “:white_check_mark: [MESSAG…

Take a look at https://api.mattermost.com/#tag/channels%2Fpaths%2F~1channels~1direct%2Fpost . You essentially just provide two user ids in the request body and the direct message channel will be created if it does not already exist. The “channel_type” field will be “D” for posts coming from a di…

[SOLVED] Direct Message with REST API issue

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jwilander (Joram Wilander) January 3, 2018, 1:39pm 8

Yes, that would be correct

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[SOLVED] Direct Message with REST API issue

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