[SOLVED] Why is php mail not sent when I have true boolean value and seems to be OK

Why is php mail not sent when I have true boolean value and seems to be OK

$res=  mail('myemailaddress@live.com', 'Email verification ','This is my own text');

print $res;

I have tried to send mail to my email id. I have 1 on page. Looks like it's working but it really did not work.

php.ini:

define_syslog_variables  = Off

[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
 SMTP = localhost
 smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = mymailaddressishere@live.in

; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program files\xampp-portable) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:\sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path.  

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)
sendmail_path = "\"\xampp-portable\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the \xampp-portable\mailoutput folder
sendmail_path = "\xampp-portable\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = Off

; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
;mail.log = "\xampp-portable\php\logs\php_mail.log"

[SQL]

I want to know that how I can trace what happen to my code. If I need to do some settings in my local php server then tell me about them.

I am using xampp portable "Run as administrator".

Solution

There is a line in your file that says:

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the \xampp-portable\mailoutput folder
sendmail_path = "\xampp-portable\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"

In my XAMPP installation, I found that the comment was wrong. You actually have to uncomment the line if you want to use mailToDisk, and the mail is actually written to /tmp/mailoutput.