How to open an email from OWA in a new tab with directly link automatically?

Question

Sometimes I leave a Chrome tab open on an email as a reminder of things to do for example. But when the tab is refreshed/reloaded by Chrome Desktop or when a entire closed Chrome window is reopened, Outlook Web App displays the inbox.

So, after opening an email in OWA, the url is like this: https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/inbox/id/<ItemID>

But trying to open this url in another tab redirects to inbox here: https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/inbox/

How to solve this?

Answer 1

There some usefully info here, but unfortunately the url layout does not work anymore.

WHAT DOES NOT WORK

https://outlook.live.com/owa/#ItemID=<ItemID>
https://outlook.live.com/owa/#ItemID=<ItemID>&exvsurl=1
https://outlook.live.com/owa/#ItemID=<ItemID>&exvsurl=1&viewmodel=ReadMessageItem

https://outlook.live.com/owa/?ItemID=<ItemID>
https://outlook.live.com/owa/?ItemID=<ItemID>&exvsurl=1

WHAT WORKS

https://outlook.live.com/owa/?ItemID=<ItemID>&exvsurl=1&viewmodel=ReadMessageItem

https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink?ItemID=<ItemID>&exvsurl=1&viewmodel=ReadMessageItem
https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink?ItemID=<ItemID>&exvsurl=1
https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink?ItemID=<ItemID>

Note: mind the %3D%3D at the end of the ItemID, it must not be forgiven!

Automating

Add a bookmark with this as the url:

javascript:id=document.URL.split("/id/")%5B1%5D.split(encodeURIComponent("=="))%5B0%5D+encodeURIComponent("==");u=`https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink?ItemID=${id}`;window.open(u)

or

javascript:id=document.URL.split("/id/")%5B1%5D.split(encodeURIComponent("=="))%5B0%5D+encodeURIComponent("==");u=`https://outlook.live.com/owa/?ItemID=${id}&exvsurl=1&viewmodel=ReadMessageItem`;window.open(u)

Now, open the email normally from OWA, then click the bookmarklet, it will open the email in a new tab from its deeplink.

Note: untested with other browsers than Chrome Desktop.