System DMs

A system DM broadcast delivers one identical message, authored by the system account, to each supplied recipient. A recipient receives a normal message in a normal direct message channel.

The Jobs resource reports delivery progress. Cancelling that job stops an in-flight broadcast.

Create system DM broadcast

POST/v1/admin/system-dmsAudit reason

Queues one message for delivery to every supplied recipient. Requires system_dm:send. Returns the number of recipients queued.

JSON body

Field	Type	Description
content1	string	The message delivered to every recipient (1-4000 characters)
user_ids2	array[snowflake]	The recipients of the broadcast (1-10,000 entries)

¹ Content with no visible character is accepted and then fails for every recipient

² FiveCord keeps duplicate IDs, so a repeated recipient receives the message once per occurrence. An ID naming no account is accepted here and skipped at delivery time

Response body

Field	Type	Description
recipient_count	integer	The number of entries in the submitted user_ids array

Response

Status	Body	Condition
200	response body	The delivery job was queued
500	error response	The broadcast could not be scheduled

The job continues past a failed recipient

Failed deliveries do not stop the remaining recipients. A completed run reports succeeded even when some deliveries failed.

The response has no job ID

Filter List jobs by the sendSystemDm task type to find the queued work. The job is queued with no requester and no reason, so its requested_by_user_id and audit_log_reason are both null.

Side effects

For each recipient the job opens the direct message channel between the system account and that recipient, then sends the message. Channel Create reaches a recipient only when the channel is newly created or was closed on that recipient’s side. A recipient who already has the channel open observes only Message Create.

Recipients need not have interacted with the system account before. FiveCord skips the direct message permission checks for the system account. A block, no friendship, no mutual guild, and the recipient’s direct message privacy settings do not stop delivery.

Cancellation stops remaining deliveries and leaves sent messages in place. The job then reports cancelled.

The operation records one Admin audit entry with the action system_dm.send, the target type system_dm, and the target ID 0. Its metadata has recipient_count and content_length as decimal strings, and the content itself is not recorded.

Rate limit

100 requests per minute for each authenticated user, on the admin:message:operation bucket.