post...@nisny.com: > I recently moved out mail operations to a new server. The old server is > running Postfix 2.8 and the new server 2.10. > > We had some initial problems with some private blacklists and the new IP > but those were resolved. However, I had a curious problem sending mail > to icloud.com addresses. Postfix was reporting: > > lost connection with mx5.icloud.com.akadns.net[17.172.34.68] while > receiving the initial server greeting > > to all MX servers for adadns.net.
What is your servers's public IP address? I suspect that PTR or A lookups are taking too long when the remote SMTP server is trying to determine your server's hostname. Wietse