debian and sms import

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

I have an IPhone with many sms messages on it.  If possible I'd like to 
export all of them to another device so that when I start doing things to 
them on my IPhone I'll have some assurance against loosing messages and 
can maybe if debian can do this pull the messages onto my hard drive and 
if necessary read those messages with some command line-based program from 
the hard drive.  I am rather certain doing things with the iPhone I've 
lost several messages accidentally in the past.  Can any of debian's 
packages help out here?