SOLVED Monterey and message flagging

[EdSinger]

After upgrading My Mac Pro to Monterey I lost the ability to flag emails with coloured flags. It is a bug - I was told
I recently got an automatic upgrade to 12.9.6 and I thought that it might have fixed the bug -- but NO.
Is it a bug or has the facility been removed from Mail?

 

[EdSinger]

Correction - OS 12.6.9

 

[TonyAguila]

After upgrading My Mac Pro to Monterey I lost the ability to flag emails with coloured flags. It is a bug - I was told
I recently got an automatic upgrade to 12.9.6 and I thought that it might have fixed the bug -- but NO.
Is it a bug or has the facility been removed from Mail?

What model is your Mac Pro? I’m on macOS Sonoma right now but I still have a startup drive with Monterey macOS 12.6.9. Are you sure you have 12.9.6? Next time I get the chance I will launch Monterey and see if I get the same issue.

Oh, I just refreshed and saw your follow up post. Okay!

 

[MacsBug]

When I upgraded my Mac to Monterey I lost the Flaged mailbox, but was still able to flag messages. To fix the missing Flagged mailbox I was able to add it to favorites.

Are you just missing the Flagged mailbox in the left column?

When you right click on a message do you see the option to flag the email? What happens when you select a color like Red?

 

[EdSinger]

Hi Tony Aguila and MacsBug - Tony : - My Mac is a late 2013 MacPro - running 12.6.9
MacsBug: - On the left nothing before "From"

I have never right clicked an email before - didn't know I could. I just tried it and I see the flag choices etc. But when I
Try to use it - what happens? Zilch.

I can see we are getting somewhere - please continue

 

[MacsBug]

Can you send a screenshot with your mail app open.

You do this by hitting command shift 4 and select the area on the left of your mailbox. Something like the image below.

 

[EdSinger]

I don't know how to attach - but I see in the list of options under 'INBOX' there is "FLAGGED" showing the number of flagged messages.

I can load the flagged messages and see them all, but the images are as if they were in Inbox - no flags or colors.

 

[MacsBug]

Try this....

In your mail window up on top where you see "From" Right click there and a popup window will show up. Then make sure that there is a checkbox next to Flags.

You can add insert an image by clicking on the inset image icon above the message or hit Command P to bring up the attach window.

 

[EdSinger]

Great! All working. Thanks so much Macsbug. I am most grateful.

 

[Irritated]

Try this....

In your mail window up on top where you see "From" Right click there and a popup window will show up. Then make sure that there is a checkbox next to Flags.


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You can add insert an image by clicking on the inset image icon above the message or hit Command P to bring up the attach window.

BRILLIANT!! That took about half a minute - and I've spent a couple of hours and trawled through endless verbose explanations on Apple websites, with not a clue about what they mean. Totally useless!! Thank you so much

 

[rjbenish]

It used to be that in a list of messages, ones that were flagged would stand out because of a (lemme guess) FLAG. Apple has broken this feature. More evidence that Apple's software engineers are into making users suffer.