How to send to an accout which has only a user name?

[MilamberValheru]

(Maybe this is not a feature and I just missed the documentation.)

Within signal You can hide your phone number and make only a user name public, something like
"thatsme.123".
How can I send a message to such an address? Is there a special syntax for this recipent field?

Using
"recipients": [ "thatsme.108" ]
in http://localhost:8080/v2/send Post responds with
"error": "Failed to send (some) messages:\n+49123: Unregistered user \"+49123\"\n1714855949363\nFailed to send message\n"

[bbernhard]

Although that is already supported by the upstream signal-cli, there is no support yet in the REST API wrapper. But it is on my todo list.

[bbernhard]

In case someone wants to give it a try, there's now a docker image for testing here: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:0.159-dev

[thedeadliestcatch]

Excellent, hopefully this gets merged into main soon.