[nine_k]

How about an app that just, well, sends the SMS texts to your email, as regular emails? A filtering rule would put them under a certain tag and skip inbox.

The upside of the design is that it requires only one, very clear, permission: send emails to a given address.

[warmwaffles]

SMSBackup+ makes the sender the contact / phone number and the receiver as your number. It's been fantastic for archiving all of my texts and such. I've been able to search it all relatively easily.

[londons_explore]

It's less clear how to do a 'restore' with that model...

Manually forward 10,000 messages to [e-mail]?