Flags in mails and clever smart folders...

Hi all,
This is one that has been niggling at me for a while now...
My current workflow is... I get an email from a client, if I need to follow it up, but don't currently have the time (most emails...) I flag (thanks to lions new naming flags option) it as a 'to-do'.
Next I move the email into a folder named for that particular client, which lives within a main folder called 'clients', save locally on my main machine.
I can now review all the emails I need 'to-do' by clicking the 'to-do' flag, whist keeping my inbox clean.
Here comes the niggle...
If i'm out and about, and think about checking the list of 'to-do's' I can only see the ones I haven't moved from the inbox on my iPhone. I am using an IMAP account, (hence the flags working) but I don't want to pop all my 'clients' folder online as it is now rather large...
Is there anyway to make a 'smart folder' on the sever, to find these flagged emails?
Thakns in advance...

A rule could work, but will also suffer from limitations.  You would have to leave Mail running on your Mac all the time, and the Mac on at all times, for it to file those messages properly.  And even if you set Mail to check mail every 5 minutes, you could still easily hit a 5 minute window where a message comes in and you see it on your phone first...  and then, being read, it won't get filed by the rule.  (Rules only work on new, unread messages.)
So that may work, but will involve some inconveniences and won't work perfectly.

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