telegram message failed: Call to 'sendMessage' failed! (400: Bad Request: message is too long)
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when restarting the openclaw gateway, i am seeing a few of these while running openclaw logs --follow along with {"subsystem":"gateway/delivery-recovery"} Retry failed for delivery <id>: Call to 'sendMessage' failed! (400: Bad Request: message is too long) and the openclaw ai doesn't seem to be responding or even injesting messages after that i see this in the logs as well:
20:28:39 info gateway/delivery-recovery {"subsystem":"gateway/delivery-recovery"} Found 3 pending delivery entries — starting recovery
20:28:39 info telegram/network {"subsystem":"telegram/network"} autoSelectFamily=true (default-node22)
20:28:39 info telegram/network {"subsystem":"telegram/network"} dnsResultOrder=ipv4first (default-node22)
20:28:39 info gateway/delivery-recovery {"subsystem":"gateway/delivery-recovery"} Found 3 pending delivery entries — starting recovery
20:28:39 info telegram/network {"subsystem":"telegram/network"} autoSelectFamily=true (default-node22)
20:28:39 info telegram/network {"subsystem":"telegram/network"} dnsResultOrder=ipv4first (default-node22)
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…it effectively reset/emptied Telegram’s backlog, and then polling immediately started working again.
So: the “too long” messages were blocking outbound retries, and separately you had a big inbound update backlog that needed to be dropped to get back to real-time.
If this happens again, the fast checks are:
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deleteWebhook?drop_pending_updates=true…it effectively reset/emptied Telegram’s backlog, and then polling immediately started working again.
So: the “too long” messages were blocking outbound retries, and separately you had a big inbound update backlog that needed to be dropped to get back to real-time.
If this happens again, the fast checks are:
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openclaw channels logs --channel telegramgetUpdates conflict-
getWebhookInfopending_update_countIf this fixed it, please mark the solution (right-click the solution message → Apps →
Mark Solution) so it gets indexed on Answer Overflow.
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