> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://api-docs.helpyousponsor.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Approve a draft message > Approves a draft in the caller's organization. Donor-originated drafts are marked sent into the recipient mailbox without sending email or reading body IDs. Other drafts use entity_id and donor_id to deliver to one donor or all current sponsors. Requires email_manager or manage_email; the disable_message_send_without_approval restriction is enforced. ## OpenAPI ````yaml post /admin/message/approve/draft/{email_id} openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Gratona API description: >- REST API for the Gratona fundraising platform, including donor, donation, sponsorship, program, event, and integration workflows. Endpoints are organized by tag. Most endpoints require either a Passport bearer token or an issued API key — see the Security Schemes section. contact: name: Gratona Engineering url: https://gratona.com email: devs@gratona.com version: 1.0.0 servers: - url: https://api.gratona.com/v1 description: Server Version 1.0.0 security: [] tags: - name: Auth description: >- Login, signup, logout, password reset, and email verification for admin users and donors. - name: Donors description: >- Donor records: CRUD, profile fields, household linkage, search, filters, merge, and duplicate detection. - name: Donations description: >- Individual donation records, recurring commitments, soft credits, refunds, designations, and exports. - name: Sponsorships description: >- Donor-to-entity sponsorship relationships, lifecycle transitions, and sponsorship-specific filters. - name: Entities description: >- Recipient records (children, families, projects, animals, etc.), their status, and entity-level fields. - name: Programs description: >- Program / campaign configuration: hierarchy, settings, and program-level metadata. - name: Forms description: >- Custom form builder (HysForm), form fields, standardized donor fields, and field migrations. - name: Trips description: >- Mission-trip management: trips, participants, budgets, tasks, e-signatures, fundraising milestones, and background checks. - name: Communications description: >- Email templates, SMS, newsletters, donor email manager, and per-donor notes. - name: Payments description: >- Payment-gateway management (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, QuickBooks). Excludes inbound webhooks — see the Webhooks tag. - name: Reports description: Dashboards, analytics, scheduled reports, and exports. - name: Admin description: >- Client-account administration: users, groups/permissions, settings, integrations, and account lifecycle. - name: Donor Portal description: >- Endpoints consumed by the donor-facing portal (donor login, dashboard, donation history, messages). - name: Recipient Portal description: Endpoints consumed by the recipient-facing portal. - name: Public description: >- Unauthenticated public endpoints: donor signup, public trip pages, peer-to-peer campaigns, public checkout. - name: Webhooks description: >- Inbound webhooks from third parties (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, Checkr, DropboxSign). Annotated minimally for reference; payload shapes are owned by the upstream provider. - name: Client description: Client - name: Email Settings description: Email Settings - name: Admin Dashboard description: Admin Dashboard - name: Historical Archived Updates description: Historical Archived Updates - name: Team & access description: Team & access - name: Files description: Files - name: Wrapped description: Wrapped - name: Donor SignUp description: Donor SignUp - name: Frontend description: Frontend - name: User description: User paths: /admin/message/approve/draft/{email_id}: post: tags: - Communications summary: Approve a draft message description: >- Approves a draft in the caller's organization. Donor-originated drafts are marked sent into the recipient mailbox without sending email or reading body IDs. Other drafts use entity_id and donor_id to deliver to one donor or all current sponsors. Requires email_manager or manage_email; the disable_message_send_without_approval restriction is enforced. operationId: 17eef6d96b77ccb832ed8d04a35a53f6 parameters: - name: email_id in: path description: ID of the draft email to approve within the caller's organization. required: true schema: type: integer example: 8712 requestBody: description: >- Recipient selection for drafts that did not originate from a donor. Omit the body for donor-originated drafts. The controller has no explicit body validator; missing or unknown IDs in the recipient-send branch return 404. required: false content: application/json: schema: properties: entity_id: description: >- Recipient ID required for drafts that did not originate from a donor. Must exist in the caller's organization. type: integer example: 443 donor_id: description: >- Donor ID in the caller's organization, or all to send to the recipient's current sponsors. Required for drafts that did not originate from a donor. example: all oneOf: - type: integer - type: string enum: - all type: object responses: '200': description: Draft approved and delivery processing completed. content: application/json: schema: properties: message: description: >- Confirmation with the selected recipient count; individual email deliveries may be skipped when no email template set is configured. type: string example: Message successfully sent to 1 Donor type: object '401': description: Missing or invalid bearer token or API key. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedResponse' '403': description: >- Communication permissions, scope access, or sending restrictions prevent approval. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' '404': description: >- The draft, recipient, donor, or program was not found in the caller's organization. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundResponse' security: - bearerAuth: [] - apiKeyAuth: [] components: schemas: UnauthorizedResponse: title: UnauthorizedResponse description: >- Returned with HTTP 401 when the request lacks a valid Passport bearer token, a valid `X-HYS-API-Key`, or a valid session. The body is the simple `{message, status}` envelope emitted by `AuthenticateApiOrKey`. required: - message - status properties: message: description: >- Always the literal string `Unauthorized` from the `auth.api_or_key` middleware. Login endpoints return `Invalid Credentials` instead. type: string example: Unauthorized status: type: string example: error type: object ErrorResponse: title: ErrorResponse description: >- Generic error envelope used by most controllers. Most error responses pair a human-readable `message` with `status: error`. Some endpoints additionally include `errors` (validator errors), `error` (legacy single-error string), `code`, or domain-specific context fields. required: - message properties: message: description: Human-readable error message. type: string example: Something went wrong. Please try again. status: description: >- Always the literal string `error` for failures. Some endpoints omit this field. type: string example: error error: description: Legacy single error code/string used by older endpoints. type: string example: invalid_request nullable: true code: description: >- Optional application-level error code (not all endpoints populate this). type: string example: DONOR_NOT_FOUND nullable: true type: object NotFoundResponse: title: NotFoundResponse description: >- Returned with HTTP 404 when a resource lookup misses (typically because the id doesn't exist OR is scoped to a different `client_id`). Note: many endpoints intentionally collapse 'not found' and 'forbidden' into a single 404 to avoid leaking which records exist in another tenant. required: - message properties: message: description: >- Human-readable message. Often a more specific string like `Donor not found` or `Trip not found`. type: string example: Not Found status: type: string example: error type: object securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http description: Passport bearer token authentication for legacy admin sessions. scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT apiKeyAuth: type: apiKey description: Gratona API key sent with the compatibility header X-HYS-API-Key. name: X-HYS-API-Key in: header ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.