I want to exclude Mail messages from showing up in Finder search on OSX Mavericks.

I went to the SysPrefs > Spotlight > Search Results tab and uncheck Mail but all my email messages still show up in finder searches.  How do I exclude finder from searching mail?

Thank you very much, this works! I didn't know about that feature, so your help was really vital!

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