How to build your own cheap SMS to Email gateway?

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Originally Posted by inquisitor

There's an SMS-to-mail feature in Asterisk for Raspberry Pi through which you could build your own GSM gateway including sms-to-mail capability: http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/do...h-chan_dongle/

But I fear the hardware is neither significantly cheaper than a simple Android phone nor is this very straightforward as it will require an hour or so so get it running.

Yup. The Raspberry is exactly the kind of thing I am looking for. It might require a setup but maybe less prone to freezing, battery problems and such, which I except from a cheap Android phone.

andy:

The task is to receive my incoming SMS in email. That's it.