split www and email services

Hi all, I'm new...
I have my own server with whm and cpanel for each domain.
I have a customer that have his domain pointed on his server (another WHM/cpanel server) by correct DNS configuration.
Now this customer delegate me to build his site. I want take this site on my server and him want to manage email by his self.
So, the question is: is it possible forwarding only the www service on my server? if yes, how?

thank you,
Fabio

Yes.
In your DNS configuration files, you add/change/edit:

www.domainname.com IN A 1.1.1.1
domainname.com IN A 1.1.1.1
domainname.com IN MX 0 hostname.domainname.com
hostname.domainname.com IN A 2.2.2.2

1.1.1.1 is your IP, that will host the site.
hostname.domainname.com is your client hostname that will
be responsible for the mail.

MX record are used for directing mail to specific server other
than the one a hostname points.
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thank you!
I'll try this solution and i'll tell you the result...

a question: when i make some change in DNS setting do i need to wait some propagation time or not?

regards
Fabio

When you made some changes in DNS setting you will need
to reload your dns server if you use bind. For win2k I really
don't know, I'm a linux guy.

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I'm trying to do the same thing, through cpanel.

If I set the MX record pointing to a different domain, do I still need a mail cname record? And if so, what does it need to be pointing at?

I think this is my problem, not sure though.

"""If I set the MX record pointing to a different domain,"""
This is not correct, you set the MX record to point to a
mail server.

""" do I still need a mail cname record?"""
What is 'exactly' a "mail cname record"?
A hostname of a mail server, will never be a CNAME record,
only an A record.

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