Change DNS but keep email server

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I currently have my client's website hosted in china and the domain is hosted in www.net.cn

I've purchased an inmotionhosting plan and i want to move the website there.

For having the website working i just need to change the DNS nameservers but i want to keep the email in the client's old server, is this possible?

Currently i have this DNS:

MX      mxn.mxhichina.com.  5
MX      mxw.mxhichina.com.  10
CNAME   pop3    pop3.mxhichina.com. --
CNAME   smtp    smtp.mxhichina.com. --
CNAME   mail    mail.mxhichina.com. --
CNAME   m   m.mxhichina.com.    --
TXT     v=spf1 include:spf.m... --
A   @   223.4.215.96    --
A   www 223.4.215.96    --

and in inmotionhosting i have this:

example.com.    14400   IN  A   216.194.168.46
localhost.example.com.  14400   IN  A   127.0.0.1
mail.example.com.   14400   IN  CNAME   example.com
www.example.com.    14400   IN  CNAME   example.com
webmail.example.com.    14400   IN  A   216.194.168.46

What do i have to change to have the website working on the new server but keeping the email server where it is right now?

Best Answer

If you just change the two A records (www and @) in the old DNS server to the new IP address, your web visitors will start hitting the new web server. No need to change who provides your DNS.

Doubling the number of things you are changing doubles the risk of something going wrong. (Roughly)

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