When I first signed up with NutShellMail I couldn’t get my professional gmail accounts to work in them (like my shuaism.com account) or any gmail accounts to work for that matter. I poked and prodded and removed and re-added accounts but nothing happened. MySpace, LinkedIn, and FaceBook worked just fine but I was a little put off by this. I thought to myself “what kind of crap is this?” So I contacted their support about it and I met a very nice guy name Mark.

To me Mark has been the voice of NutShellMail, he’s kept me in the loop and every time I have had a question or reported a bug Mark responded back rather quickly and the team had a fix within just a day or two and I’m happy to report it’s all working great now.

In fact I love NutShellMail. I’m just going to go ahead and put it out there. They have a great system and a great way of handling various email accounts. Personally I have 4 different gmail accounts as well as MySpace and FaceBook accounts that I get messages through.  To go and look at each one individually amounted to a great big softball sized hemorrhoid of a pain in the butt and a
major time suck to check it all. Then NutShellMail showed up in my life and made it all much more simple.

I can now get all my messages sent directly to my inbox in one nicely formatted email update from NutShellMail. It makes scanning all of my inboxes as easy as checking just one email account and I don’t have to waste time logging in and logging out and checking what’s going on here and there and
everywhere in between.

Mark and the rest of the team over at NutShellMail have been not only incredibly professional and quick to respond to questions and problems but they have also been very personable and I’ve had a good time talking to them and working with bugs and etc. But besides the great staff what makes
NutShellMail such a great email aggregator?

Features and benefits:

• After signing up with your main email address (work address for
  most of us) you can set your update schedule and get up to 5 emails a
  day that show you what’s new in each inbox.
• Each email has a quick and easy way to access that account
  directly or for anyone who is behind a corporate firewall you can use
  the boomerang feature to get the email.
• Boomerang feature sends any email that is in one of your
  NutShellMail managed accounts to the inbox of your most used email
  account. This complies with most office policies because the message
  comes in through your companies firewall and allows it to be properly
  scanned.
• Website has an easy to use interface and allows you to see all of your accounts.
• Has the ability to save some time by keeping you from logging in
  to accounts with no mail and then more than likely getting side tracked
  on a social network.
• Helps keep inbox clutter to a minimum by being able to turn off
  all social network notifications (only MySpace, FaceBook, and LinkedIn
  currently) and use one portal to view them all.

Things I’d like to see:

• Apps for the iPhone and Android (I
  want NutShellMail on my G1!).
• Add more social networks like Hi5
  and Friendster.
• A specialized alert system that could send alerts right away if a message is received from a certain person / email address.

It’s a great new service and I can see it’s potential for growth. The team is great and they seem to be very engaged with their customers and those who talk about them. After I put up the initial “I’m gonna blog about you” post they followed me on Twitter, commented on the post and started a dialogue with me almost immediately. Good job guys, I’m impressed.

What do you think? Go try it out and let me know, I’d love
to hear what other people have to say about it.

Josh “Shua” Peters

P.S. I was going to write up a detailed walkthrough but they have a great video on the NutShellMail homepage that demonstrates it quite quickly.
I’d recommend a quick view.