Wa-automate-nodejs: Can't send message to any number which isn't in the "old" message list already.

Created on 12 Feb 2020 · 7Comments · Source: open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs

Version numbers
Sulla: 1.7.10

Describe the bug
Sulla cannot create a new message if number hasn't sent a message to the phone number before.

Steps to Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Send a message to new number whom you have not yet communicated with
Sulla will say it has sent message but it doesn't send.

create() code
This is the code you use to create the client. e.g

this.client?.sendText(
            to,
            message
        ).then(e => {
            this.log(`Message dispatched to ${to}`, message);
        }).catch(e => {
            this.logger.error(`Message FAILED to dispatch to ${to}`, message);
        });

This code returns in '.then' block however the message is never sent.

Expected behaviour
If the number is not in the list of 'old' messages then sulla should create a new chat for that number and send message.

DEBUG INFO

Debug Info { 
WA_VERSION: '0.4.613',
  PAGE_UA:
   'WhatsApp/0.4.607 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36',
  SULLA_HOTFIX_VERSION: '1.7.10',
  BROWSER_VERSION: 'Chrome/79.0.3945.0' }

Screenshots

This is how it looks before sending a message

before

This is how it looks after message is sent

after

This is how it should look

actual

Host (please complete the following information):

Mac OSX

Additional context

Source

alishahlakhani

All 7 comments

Possibly duplicate of #6

I am okay to close this. I'd rather respect the privacy and choice of people and ask them to initiate conversation first rather than spamming them even if they didn't subscribe willingly.

alishahlakhani on 12 Feb 2020

it's not a bug, it's a feature: do not bug people you never had contact with.

maybe @smashah should mention this in the send message example in readme.md