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- Outlook Web Access at https://outlook.office365.com
- VPN to SLAC + any IMAP client (like Thunderbird without the Owl integration)
- ssh to a SLAC linux machine and use any IMAP client (eg, you can configure mutt and alpine for IMAP)
- https://citrix.slac.stanford.edu If you are already a Citrix user, you may consider reading email using this. You can run an entire Windows Desktop environment, or just a single application (like Outlook). This may not be the most convenient or quick way to bring up your email, but it is listed here for completeness.
Owl Documentation
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-exchange/
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As a bonus, the Calender integration with Outlook seems to work also. It will take some time all your email and calendar entries to be loaded the fist time.
Why Owl was chosen over some alternatives
We did an evaluation of several products which offered some type of Outlook Web Access protocol integration with Linux.
Owl was chosen because of the popularity of Thunderbird, which is already being used by many linux users, and Thunderbird is already provided as a supported application from the major linux desktop distributions which are recommended at SLAC (Ubuntu, CentOS). We list the alternatives here for completeness, and you are welcome to try them (and pay for them yourself) if you do not like using Owl with Thunderbird for some reason.
hiri. https://www.hiri.com
Pros: Nice interface; easy to set up and use. Easy access and use of Calendar, Email, and Contacts.
Cons: Cannot view full email headers. Not many configurable settings/preferences. No recent software updates. No response from developers/company.
ExQuilla. https://www.exquilla.com/ (older version of Owl).
The first generation Exchange add-on for Thunderbird. Same developer as Owl (see above). This product uses older technology, but still may work.
Evolution-ews. Evolution did not seem to be as popular as Thunderbird. We found the interface to be of poor quality, and the configuration was complicated.