FWIW - Redhat 7.2 - here's how I got evolution 1.01 to install

<http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/mirror/gnomehide/7.2/RPMS/>

bonobo-1.0.18-1.i386.rpm
bonobo-activation-0.9.3.91-2.i386.rpm
bonobo-conf-0.14-1.i386.rpm
evolution-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm
gal-0.19-2.i386.rpm
GConf-1.0.7-2.i386.rpm
glib2-1.3.12.90-1.i386.rpm
gtkhtml-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm
libbonobo-1.108.0.90-1.i386.rpm
libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
libgtkhtml9-0.9.2-10.i386.rpm
libIDL-0.7.1.91-1.i386.rpm
libxml-1.8.16-3.i386.rpm
libxml-devel-1.8.16-3.i386.rpm
linc-0.1.12.90-1.i386.rpm
oaf-0.6.7-2.i386.rpm
ORBit-0.5.12-1.i386.rpm
ORBit2-2.3.100.90-2.i386.rpm
ORBit-devel-0.5.12-1.i386.rpm

and installed via... rpm -Uvh *rpm

It's very 'Outlook' like and it apparently can authenticate on smtp.

YMMV

Craig