mutt: Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.)
I have encountered this same error today.I found I only had mutt installed, but once I installed sendmail this error went away. However I then got blocked locally. So I uninstalled sendmail, and installed postfix this worked..Now receiving email with attached pdf.
This was on RHEL 7.4 in an enterprise environment. Unsure if results will differ on other versions or environments.