How do I make maildrop not silently drop all mail?

Question

I'd like to try out maildrop instead of procmail because I'm new to mail filtering and want to avoid accidentally not getting mail. Putting |maildrop in my $HOME/.forward results in mail not making it to my $MAIL and worse, it doesn't bounce. It just disappears into the ether. I'm okay with the limited number of examples of maildrop syntax, but I don't see any howtos explaining how to start using it in the first place.

Answer 1

Try if the maildrop filter is configured corretly: echo | maildrop .mailfilter

And do not forget that the .mailfilter should have minimal rights: chmod 600 .mailfilter (this would also be alerted if you try the first command).