You're looking for read receipts and unfortunately, they aren't easy to set up with Apple Mail. You can give this a read but there are two problems with that method: it is unnecessarily complex and it requests receipts for every message you send. Actually, I can't guarantee that this will work with newer versions of Apple Mail. Proceed with caution.
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