The only problem is that any messages that the iPhone received while the middleman was out of range won’t get to your PC, but this’d still be extremely useful for quick replies.
I wonder if the iPhone will accept photos over MAP....
> The only problem is that any messages that the iPhone received while the middleman was out of range won’t get to your PC
That is not a problem. MAP is sort of like the IMAP protocol. You can ask the phone to give you older messages and the iPhone does indeed support that as well.
Moreover, with this scheme, you will likely have to keep the donor host iPhone and the middleman at home and have them plugged in 24/7. So then your middleman doesn’t have to be extremely clever, although it wouldn’t hurt if it was.
I wonder if the iPhone will accept photos over MAP....