Using "Flagged" in a Mail rule

I want to make all Flagged messages a different color (as well as being flagged) and looked at using a simple mail rule. However "Message is Flagged" is not a Mail rule criterion so it appears impossible to make something along the lines of: If any message is flagged, set colour of message to yellow...
Is there another way to achieve this result?

Hi,
I tried the same requirement as yours and it seems to be working in my case.
     IF( "BegBalance" -> "SA300" == +2011+ )
          "SA400" = #MISSING;
     ELSEIF("BegBalance" -> "SA300" == +2012+ )
          "SA400" = +1+;
     ENDIF
where SA300 and SA400 are my smart list members and +2011,2012+ and +1+ is are smart list ID which are numeric.

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Message was edited by: mysterioso

AFAIK Mail rules do not support boolean expressions.
to do what you want you'd have to create two rules
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Ok thankyou. i will do it from next time. Please give me code changes for my problem.

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