Outlook Web Application as a dedicated application

This provides installers for Windows/Mac/Linux that install a dedicated application which hosts outlook's web application.

Rationale

I have found that the Outlook Web application a great email client for a number of reasons.

• It always is running the latest without upgrading.
• It gets new features faster (such as sweep)
• It starts fast and is really responsive.
• etc

The one thing that has prevented me from adopting it is the fact that it runs as a browser tab.

• It gets lost in the soup of other tabs
• It is harder to get to my email tab because it isn't on my active app list
• Browser hot keys sometimes interact with the application
• It doesn't give me notifications when the brower goes away etc.

To solve this I have created (well forked eNkrus version and tweaked) an Electron app which simply runs the Outlook Web app in a dedicated application frame:

Outlook 365 application

This hosts http://mail.office365.com and is suitable for using with enterprise work/school environments

Outlook.com application

This hosts http://outlook.com and is suitable for using for personal email.

Installing

Go to https://github.com/tomlm/electron-outlook/releases

• .msi version installs on windows
• .dmg version installs on mac
• .deb version installs on linux

Building

Install prerequistites

yarn

Building Outlook.com version

Go to Outlook.com folder and run

yarn dist:win
yarn dist:macOS
yarn dist:linux

To build each distribution for outlook.com. The installers will be built into the dist folder.

Building Office 365 version

Go to Office365 folder and run

yarn dist:win
yarn dist:macOS
yarn dist:linux

To build each distribution for office365. The installers will be built into the dist folder.

Acknowledgements

This project is a fork of eNcru/electron-outlook.