Read receipts in Mac mail.

I'll prefix this with the fact that I'm a total Macbook and Yosemite newb. As in I have not used a mac since 1992.
I thought I had found an article on how to send and receive read receipts in Mac mail, but after searching again, all I found was some obscure comments that read receipts were really not necessary, so it was not a big deal, and another article that showed how to create rules via the unix console...not really what I was looking for. I just was wondering if there is not a setting I am missing? Business people DO need, as a matter of doing business, require read receipts, for obvious reasons. If you are not in business or government this whole thread will be baffling and boring...sorry.
Finally , if not, will read receipts from gmail , show up in Mac mail if it is set up? ...or I would be just better to wash my hands of Mac mail, and use my Gmail, and if so, is there a way to do this...an extension perhaps, in Safari?
Thanks for any and all help.
Dave.

Rodolfo,
I guess you are missing my somewhat sarcastic sense of humour, and for that, I apologize.
Of course OS X can get viruses, malware and pesky adware. I was merely poking fun, at those, who are no so technically inclined, and tend to just "drink the koolaid" regardless of the established facts and body of evidence. I am acutely aware which operating systems are vulnerable and why. In my over 20 years of using computers for work and play, in my experience, UNIX has been the most secure...which is why it is the choice of governments' world-wide, and the least was WIN95-98. I had no virus' or malware at all with Win7...using MaCaffe, MalwareBytes, and SuperAdBlocker (which is a Chrome extension which seems to work fine on OS X) And no they did not slow down my machines (Norton did...very slow) Hackers find no challenge in writing for only 9% ( OS X ) of the units out there, as the 90% is a much bigger, and more lucrative target. It has nothing to do with the inherant inability for OS X to get viruses, malware or adware.
I am optimistic for the future of OS X, as it is slowly gathering steam, and garnering lots of attention from other platform users.
The biggest danger any any OS is smugness.
Dave

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