Setting mail read receipt

Hello,
I'm trying to send a msg with read receipt but in mail theres no option for that. I've googled on the subject, find some information, but i'm not sure that is completely correct.
Anyone of you guys have tried to work this out?
Thanks for your time and help.
Cheers

Whatever you found is likely correct.
Mail does not support read receipts, I imagine because it is a stupid concept.
You can set up Mail to always add a custom header that requests a read receipt. There is no way to set that up on a per email basis. It is all or nothing.
Why is it a stupid concept you might ask? Because read receipts depend on the destination email client to handle them (Mail does not), and they depend on your recipient allowing them to be sent. I believe all email clients are now set up with automatic response turned off, if it exists at all. So, you not getting a read receipt is completely useless. You have no idea if the email has not been read, or the person you sent it to doesn't allow responses or if their email client even knows what to do with the read receipt.
Also, spammers have co-opted the read receipt to validate their email lists. Send a read receipt and get a response = valid email address to sell.
Instead of trying to sneak in a read receipt on someone, politely request in the email itself notification that they have read your email as it is very important to you for some reason.

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