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.