Prospective Eris Purchaser - email ?'s

[bassplyr]

I am thinking about purchasing an Eris this weekend and have been researching for a few weeks. I am coming from a BB Pearl with BIS and use Outlook 2007. With BIS email is not push, but is pretty darn quick. I have three business email addresses with different domain names, but all set up on yahoo. Currently I receive email to these addresses on my BB via BIS, then Outlook pulls them down from the Yahoo server.

If I got to the Eris, I know I can forward the yahoo addresses to my gmail account and get push service via gmail, however, yahoo will not keep copies of forwarded messages on their server so apparently I will not be able to retrieve these messages via Outlook. If I set the Yahoo addresses up as POP3 accounts, how frequently can I access the accounts? How big a battery drain is it?

Also, I have sent a CSV file of my contacts to my gmail account, but how do contacts get updated between outlook, gmail, and eris?

Thanks,
Roger

 

[mimmic]

The email client on the phone allows you to set pop emails to retrieve email between like 5 minutes to a few hours, with the option of manual download only as well. I use my phone with an exchange email through my work and 4 other pop email accounts. I don't have any battery problems unless I am seriously using my phone throughout the day (steaming music through pandora, leaving meebo open all day)