Bring the necessary Desktop Notification to Outlook Web App.

README.md

Synopsis

Outlook Web App has no Desktop Notification support. Probably because IE doesn't support it as well...

Motivation

I missed to much mails because this feature is missing...

Installation

1. Install user script manager in your browser:

• Cromium based browsers: Tampermonkey
• Firefox: Greasemonkey
• Opera 9.x: Violent monkey

2. Open this links and install the script:

• Sad Web App Notifier

3. Change @match to your Outlook Web App URL

License

Public Domain

sadWebAppNotifier.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Sad Web App Notifier
// @namespace    https://gist.github.com/lisotton/
// @version      1
// @description  Bring the necessary Desktop Notification to Outlook Web App.
// @author       Leandro Isotton
// @match        https://myremote.ec.europa.eu/owa/*
// @exclude      */manifests/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

console.log('Start Sad Web App Notifier');
if (!("Notification" in window)) {
  alert("This browser does not support desktop notification. Sad Web App Notifier will not work.");
}
else {
  Notification.requestPermission();
  var BoxName = getBoxName();
  checkForNewMail();
}

function getBoxName(){
  var name = document.URL.match(/\/([^@\/]+@[^@\/]+)\//);
  return name ? name[1] : false;
}

function checkForNewMail() {
  var favoriteFolders = document.getElementById('MailFolderPane.FavoritesFolders');
  var numberOfMessages = favoriteFolders.getElementsByClassName('ms-fcl-tp')[0].innerText;
  numberOfMessages = numberOfMessages == '' ? 0 : parseInt(numberOfMessages);

  if (typeof window.numberOfMessages === 'undefined') {
    console.log('Initializing...');
    window.numberOfMessages = numberOfMessages;
  }

  if (numberOfMessages > window.numberOfMessages) {
    console.log('New mail!');
    var notification = spawnNotification('', 'You have new mail!');
  }
  else {
    console.log('No new mail');
  }

  window.numberOfMessages = numberOfMessages;
  setTimeout(checkForNewMail, 10000);
}

function spawnNotification(body, title) {
  if (BoxName) title += ' ('+BoxName+')';
  var options = {
    body: body,
    icon: 'https://openclipart.org/image/128px/svg_to_png/214764/1424701298.png'
  }
  return new Notification(title, options);
}