Forward WhatsApp messages to e-mail or SMS Some friends of mine want to use WhatsApp to send me messages from time to time. But, I don't want to install the app (or I don't want to have it running all the time). Can I configure something within WhatsApp or another service to forward the messages from WhatsApp to an e-mail address via SMS?

Even a solution that requires me to configure a program on my own server would suffice.
You can bridge WhatsApp to Matrix using mautrix which can be bridged to other serives like email. It is unfortunatley quite the hacky setup:


Have a Synapse or another Matrix server
Run an Android VM to run WhatsApp
Run the mautrix bridge
Run another bridge, e.g. this one, to bridge to email or wherever desired.