Prospect Mail client

The Outlook desktop client for the new Outlook Interface from Microsoft 365.

Needed configuration in your Outlook Web configuration

It's recommended to enable the new design to be able to use this client

Feature

• Receive your Outlook Microsoft 365 online from the desktop app
• Close to minimize
• Dock tray support
• System notification
• Connect to standard or custom outlook url

Settings

• Via tray menu settings.json can be opened and edited. After every save you need to click in "Reload settings" to apply changes.

{
 "urlMainWindow":"https://customurl.example/"
 ,"urlsInternal":["customurl.example"]
 ,"urlsExternal":["externalurls.example"]
 ,"showWindowFrame":true
}

As an example, this configuration will let you use Prospect with personal Outlook.com account:

Please notice that Prospect Mail is only tested in Work/Educational accounts and no issues will be reviewed for personal accounts.

{
    "urlMainWindow":"https://outlook.live.com/mail",
    "urlsInternal":["outlook.com", "live.com"],
    "urlsExternal":["outlook.com", "live.com"]
}

Architecture components

The main software architecture components and their versions are this:

• Node.js version: 14.17.x
• yarn version: 1.22.x or newer
• electron version: 13.0.x
• electron-builder version: 22.11.x
• electron-settings version: 4.0.2

Build

Clone the repository and run in development mode. (You need to have git , node and yarn) installed)

git clone https://github.com/julian-alarcon/prospect-mail.git
cd prospect-mail
yarn
yarn start

Build the application for linux

yarn run dist:linux

This will build an AppImage, deb and snap files in the dist folder. This files can be run in most popular linux distributions.

Is possible to specify the snap or AppImage build type using running this:

yarn run dist:linux:snap

Build the application for Mac (It works in versions 10.14 and 10.15)

yarn run dist:macOS

Download

The released application can be downloaded here.

Installation

Snap build are available in the Snapcraft Store. You can search prospect-mail from the Software Store in Ubuntu and linux distributions or use sudo snap install prospect-mail from the terminal.

Once it was builded, or using the release files available, you can install the files using AppImage process, using .deb sudo dpkg -i prospect-mail_x.y.z_arch.deb or using the snap file sudo snap install prospect-mail_x.y.z_arch.snap --dangerous.

Release to Snapstore

snapcraft login
snapcraft upload --release=edge prospect-mail_x.y.z_arch.snap

License

MIT by Julian Alarcon based on work on electron-outlook by Howard J