Client already has email server...Questions inside...

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We have a client who we are about to setup hosting for on our reseller account, but they already have a server in-house that is handling their email. What do we have to do to make sure that all of their email is not affected and still goes to their servers, while their website goes through us? Is this something we would set at Jodohost or at GoDaddy?

Thanks.
 
GoDaddy has a Total DNS Control section it is available if you registered at GoDaddy otherwise, the "Total DNS Control" vanishes. It includes "Manage MX Records" if you if you want to forward to your mail server.

Managing your DNS Zone involves creating different types of DNS records. An A or Host Record associates a domain name with an IP address. By default, a A Record (appears as @ is added to resolve your primary domain - ie. domain.com - to your server IP address). A CNAME record is essentially a pointer, pointing specific names to the same IP as your primary domain. Here you would add things like www (for www.domain.com) or mail (for mail.domain.com). An MX or Mail Record controls where email sent to your domain goes. You may want to create a CNAME record for mail.domain.com and then an MX record to mail.domain.com, for example.

It appears that you can use 'Total Domain Control' with the other features. Therefore, you could configure the DNS zones for your domain as you want them to be, then register your own name servers through 'Domain Host Summary' and then list all of the relevant name servers through 'Nameserver Summary'. Therefore, you might end up with the following nameservers listed: ns.yourdomain.com, park1.godaddy.com, park2.godaddy.com. DNS queries will go to those name servers (yours, then godaddy's) in that order.
 
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