Spotlight search doesn't include my email - should it?

Sorry but I am a newbie running Lion
I can search in the Mail app and find the email I am looking for (I have a Gmail IMAP account setup)
When I search using the spotlight app however, it is not searching for email
My questions is - should I be able to find emails in the spotlight search app?
Sorry if this is known by all
I did a clean install of Lion on  a 2010 27" iMac
thanks
Mark

I just did a test and Spotlight found my Gmail messages.
Go to Ststem Preferences/Spotlight and be sure you have "Messages and Chats" selected.  Also in Privacy, make sure you don't Gmail set to be excluded.

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