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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by Qiasfah on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:20PM (#20300297)
Any good alternatives for this very useful app?
Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by tomswartz07 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:28PM (#20300336)
Presently? None of which I'm aware.

I'm very much hoping that we could resolve the issue with SMSBackup+ for the time being, but that's mostly up to the project owner.

I did hear of some folks using their own IMAP server and CALDAV service to target instead of Google, but I have not tested it.

Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by Reelin on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:33PM (#20301018)
I attempted to use SMS Gate (a fork) to do backups from the stock messaging app to the SD card. It didn't work.

> I did hear of some folks using their own IMAP server ...

I ended up syncing to a Dovecot IMAP server on my local Linux desktop, which seemed to work just fine. I was apprehensive about the complexity of setting an IMAP server up, but that turned out to be misguided - Dovecot was incredibly simple to get up and running. I assume SMSBackup+ would work just as well as SMS Gate did here.

I eventually ended up moving from the stock messaging app to QKSMS (GPLv3, Github, Google Play, F-Droid) because it has built in backup functionality.

Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by nine_k on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:06PM (#20300887)
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.

Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by warmwaffles on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:20PM (#20300956)
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.
Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by londons_explore on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:52AM (#20302826)
It's less clear how to do a 'restore' with that model...

Manually forward 10,000 messages to [email protected]?

Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by daturkel on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:52PM (#20300512)
I reached out to the author because I've been a user of the app for several years, but I haven't heard back (this was only a few days ago). I'm hoping it can continue in some form.
Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by fencepost on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:51AM (#20304862)
You're likely to have better luck monitoring the relevant issue on the github repo. https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/959
Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:50PM (#20300501)
Sounds like a great use for Fastmail and their open JMAP protocol.
Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by blackoil on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:50AM (#20302818)
MS has 'SMS Organizer'. It backups to Google Drive account. Though not sure if it is globally available.