unable to send mail using Mutt - linux

Recently we have migrated Unix OS to new flavor. Since then we couldn't able to send mails. I think we are missing some configuration, Could someone help in resolving the issue.
Command: echo "" | mutt -s "subject" -i /tmp/test.txt -a /tmp/test.txt xxx#gmail.com
Error: Can't stat xxx#gmail.com: No such file or directory
xxx#gmail.com: unable to attach file.
Current OS: Oracle Linux Server release 7.1
Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Please let me know what would be the issue.

Take a look at the man page. It states, that -a takes a list of arguments, which need to be terminated by --.

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I successfully used:
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I have a CentOS server which does not have the mail client. I do not have sudo access to install it or to install mutt.
What may be the best alternative that I can use to send myself an email to notify a failure/success of a process that I run on this server?
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