How to make a bot send dms after some time?

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hello! I just started coding like two days ago and I want to make a discord bot that is able to send anonymous dms, I already have the code to send the messages instantly thanks to a youtube tutorial but I was wondering if you could somehow make the bot wait a certain amount of time before sending the message, this is the code I have for the instant dm if it helps with anything

    client.on ('message', message =>{

            if (message.author.bot) return;

            

            mention = message.mentions.users.first(); 

            

            if (message.content.startsWith (prefix + "send") ) {

                if (mention == null) { return; } 

                message.delete();

                mentionMessage = message.content.slice (5);

                mention.send('someone sent you a letter! **||** ' + mentionMessage + ' **||** make sure to send them a reply! (if you know who they are of course ^^)');

                message.channel.send ('your letter will be delivered!')

            } },)

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var sendmsg = function(){
mention.send('someone sent you a letter! **||** ' + mentionMessage + ' **||** make sure to send them a reply! (if you know who they are of course ^^)');
};
setTimeout(sendmsg,3000); //Send the message after 3 seconds.
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is there a specific place where I have to write it?
I’ve been trying to do it and I kinda understand how it works but I havent been able to really make it work

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Add it to the Ready on Message event.

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ok sorry Im a huge dumbass, I’ve been trying to find the ready on the message event but I can really seem to find it,Im really sorry but can you describe it more specifically please?

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This:

client.on ('ready', () =>{
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ooooooh alright so do I do something like this?

client.on (‘ready’, () =>{
var sendmsg = function(){
mention.send(‘someone sent you a letter! || ’ + mentionMessage + ’ || make sure to send them a reply! (if you know who they are of course ^^)’);
};
setTimeout(sendmsg,3000);
}

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Yes, something like that, not quite there yet

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what do you mean something like that?
sorry, this is just hard to figure out
I already tried a bunch of option but it either sends instantly or breaks everything

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I don’t think I should keep on spoon feeding you at this point.
To fix it you have to change something, not everything in the code is correct

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ok ok I’ll try to figure it out
thank you ^^

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I’ve been trying to look for some coding , I want my bot to send private dms but juss like private dms and I’m not sure how to code that can someone help me ?

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Don’t bump. Make a new topic.