The push half accepts an @channelusername and the intake half cannot: an
inbound update names its chat by number, so an @-name matches nothing. The
check lived in NewPoller, which wireTelegramIntake logs and returns from, so a
box configured that way booted clean with a dead intake half and a working push
half. Nothing looked broken from the chat.
ValidateIntakeChatID moves the rule where config validation can reach it, the
same shape validateNetScan uses. It is stricter than the old prefix test: any
non-digit is refused, not just a leading @. An empty token or chat id still
means telegram is not wired, because an unset ${TELEGRAM_*} expands to empty
and that must not fail a box with no bot.
deploy/mavend.json turns intake on. The chat id on this box is numeric.
The onCallback comment claimed every path answers the callback. The fromOwner
early return does not, and silence toward a stranger is correct, so the comment
was what was wrong.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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