MacOS – Spotlight: Search flagged Mail Messages

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I'm looking for a way to have all mail messages flagged/labeled with "Red" show up in a saved search in the Finder, but Mail.app flags doesn't seem to be indexed by Spotlight.

Any ideas?

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You can search for tags in Spotlight using the following syntax:

tag:name

For example, to search for all messages with Stack Exchange that are tagged Red, do:

Stack Exchange tag:Red

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I will admit this isn't a GREAT solution - but it works (and you could probably set a keyboard shortcut to type it for you if you wanted).

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