How to Install Prospect Mail on Ubuntu Linux

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Microsoft Outlook’s platform offers email, calendar, and contact organization, while promoting communication and collaboration when integrated with Office 365. Linux users, however, need to use Prospect Mail, an unofficial Outlook client, for a similar experience. The tutorial guides through installing Prospect Mail via Snap on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 desktops.

Microsoft Outlook is a communications platform from Microsoft that lets you connect and stay organized with your email, calendar, and contacts from a single application.

It allows teams and users to communicate and collaborate and integrates with Office 365.

For Linux users, the official Outlook app is not available. To get Outlook on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, you’ll have to settle for a workaround app called Prospect Mail (an unofficial Outlook client for Linux).

prospect Mail is an unofficial Microsoft Outlook client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron.

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install the Outlook client desktop app on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 desktops.

For more about Prospect Mail, visit its homepage.

Some of the features you get with Prospect Mail:

  • Receive your Outlook OWA MS Office 365 online from the desktop app
  • Close to minimize
  • Dock tray support
  • System notification

When you’re ready to install Prospect Mail for Linux follow the steps below

Install Prospect Mail (Outlook Client) via Snap

Prospect Mail (Outlook) can also be installed via Ubuntu snap package management… This might be the quickest way to install Prospect Mail.

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

To install via Snap, run the commands below

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install prospect-mail

When you’re done, Prospect Mail should be installed and ready to use… To launch it, go to the Activities Overview and search Prospect Mail and launch it.

When it opens, type in your Outlook email address and password to log on.

You can begin sending and receiving emails from your desktop without logging on online.

If you’re a student or new user looking for a Linux system to start learning on, the easiest place to start is Ubuntu Linux OS. It’s a great Linux operating system for beginners.

Ubuntu is an open-source Linux operating system that runs on desktops, laptops, servers, and other devices.

During your introduction to Ubuntu, you will find that Linux isn’t so different than Windows and other operating systems in so many ways, especially when it comes to using the system to get work done.…

Ubuntu and Windows systems allow you to be productive, easy to use, and reliable and enable you to install and run thousands of programs, from gaming to productivity suite software for individuals and businesses.

That’s it!

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Prospect Mail for Linux on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04.

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14 responses to “How to Install Prospect Mail on Ubuntu Linux”

  1. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    Is there a way to organize folders and subfolders however you wish, or will they only be organized alphabetically?

  2. Lukas Avatar
    Lukas

    Hi.
    Is there an Outlook mail client for Ubuntu Linux based x86-32 machine?

  3. Vinay Avatar
    Vinay

    Is there a way to install or plug in a spell check

  4. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    Thank You

  5. Cliff Avatar
    Cliff

    My installation is stuck at: Automatically connect eligible plugs and slots of snap “prospect-mail”
    Any ideas? Thanks!

  6. mac Avatar
    mac

    it there is a organization mode
    when i enter my gmail account
    he cant accept

    please help me

  7. Dak Avatar
    Dak

    How do I open it? I don’t have an activities overview.

    Thank you

  8. Yashwanth Avatar
    Yashwanth

    how to make default mailing as Prospect mail.?

  9. ant00 Avatar
    ant00

    it seems to just open a browser window, nothing more. And hangs when you try to go to your account settings. You’d better off just using your browser

  10. Adrian Challinor Avatar
    Adrian Challinor

    It seems to only connect to a Microsoft hosted exchange server. We use servers from a different supplier. Normally, on failing to connect to the Microsoft exchange server, I get asked to connect manually and specify the domain. This does not happen.

  11. Carlos Hamer Avatar
    Carlos Hamer

    Thanks

  12. Rajesh Avatar
    Rajesh

    Run This Command, I am Faced same problem finally i got it, ofter command excusition

    apt install apt-transport-https

  13. Nico Avatar
    Nico

    It’s installed on my Ubunu 20.04.
    I search prospect in activities. It ask me to logon. So far all ok.
    But No I ‘maximized’ an email for better readability.
    How can I close just this screen? Everythin I close now closes the app.

    I access my laptop through XRDP.

  14. Ralph_Fonz Avatar
    Ralph_Fonz

    thats just the web app… open a browser tab. this is not an actual desktop based application

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