The phrase "a draft message" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a preliminary version of a message that is not yet finalized or sent.
Example: "Before sending the email, I need to review a draft message to ensure everything is accurate."
Alternatives: "a preliminary message" or "a rough draft of the message."
Users can also save a composed message/bulletin as a draft, delete and open a saved draft message to edit/send the message, and view or hide sent items.
A 1998 draft message from Tony Blair to the Zimbabwean president, also obtained by the Guardian, states: "My government recognises that the present pattern of land ownership needs to be fundamentally changed.
Create a draft short message Top Secret Short Message Draft to Secret Contact using the messenger application.
Instead, he showed the draft message to a colleague, Carlisle Campbell, an engineer.
Reading a carefully drafted message to the sniper, Chief Moose said: "You have indicated you want us to say and do certain things.
Instead, the next morning, she wore purple, a symbol of the unity of red and blue states, and, before hundreds of shocked, weeping staffers, she made her way through a hastily drafted message of endurance and gratitude.
The initial 'bank' of draft messages was scrutinised and modified by an expert review panel made up of a multidisciplinary group of clinicians (including cardiologists, a psychologist, a physiotherapist, nurses and public health specialists), researchers and academics.
Account passwords should be carefully controlled and junior employees given limited permissions to draft messages requiring approval before publication.
Those draft messages, because they had not been transmitted across the Internet, could have been viewed by federal authorities with nothing more than a subpoena, according to current law.
You might have four draft messages, as if you'd been deliberating about which one you're going to send, and then you finally hit reply with one of your possible drafts.
