MX records and that

[hargi]

Looking for a bit of help.

Im busy doing a website for a school. They currently use google apps for education equivalent of gmail for there email.
There email is all working as its been set up with there current web site provider.
Now I know I can just get them to put a redirect to the co.uk version of the site. But I want to host the site on vidahost which i can do, I can get the current provider to point to the vidahost servers so they can still keep there .sch.uk web address.

But how would I go about doing it so that no emails are lost and there is no email down time?

TIA

 

[hargi]

So if the MX records are the same on both the old host and the vidahost ( set up before ) asking the old host to change over then everything should be fine?

I think we will be changing name servers for everything as the old host is editure which supplies VLE's and is in austraila.