I spent quite a while trying to track down why my bot was suddenly failing to send a message to a private group when it had previously worked. It turned out that the message included an @channel and our slack admins had recently restricted who can do that. I couldn't figure it out because that error was not listed on the chat.postMessage page.
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I spent quite a while trying to track down why my bot was suddenly failing to send a message to a private group when it had previously worked. It turned out that the message included an
@channeland our slack admins had recently restricted who can do that. I couldn't figure it out because that error was not listed on thechat.postMessagepage.