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

A Sad Web App Notifier

Bring the necessary Desktop Notification to Outlook Web App.

sadWebAppNotifier.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Sad Web App Notifier
// @namespace    https://gist.github.com/sdennler/
// @version      1
// @description  Bring the necessary Desktop Notification to Outlook Web App.
// @author       Sdennler
// @match        https://webmail.jobs.ch/*
// @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(){
    NewMailNote = document.getElementsByClassName('_f_jb')[0];
    if(!NewMailNote || NewMailNote.firstChild.style.display == 'none'){
        console.log('No new mail');
    } else {
        console.log('New mail!');
        var notification = spawnNotification('', 'You have new mail!');
        NewMailNote.firstChild.style.display = 'none';
    }
    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);
}