Advice needed on move to in-house email. DNS and subdomain newbie.

Hi there.
One of my hats says IT Manager and I have a decision to make regarding about email services for a fast growing company.
At present my company uses MediaTemple to host our web and email, but are presently finding many limitations particularly in the flexibility of email accounts specific to various sub domains. An example of a feature we need (but {mt} can't provide) is separate accounts for [email protected] and [email protected] MediaTemple will only allow a single mailbox.
We desperately require this functionality which leads to my questions (as I'm easily perplexed by DNS and BIND):
1. Is it possible to modify a DNS zone file so that subdomains can exist for both our website (which will continue to be hosted with MediaTemple) and also exist locally for email on our in-house Xserve G5 running Mac OS X Server 10.4.7?
2. Does the Mail Server in 10.4 allow individual mailboxes for the same name under different subdomains.
Sorry for the dubious explanations. I barely understand the process itself, but I'm learning.
Thanks in advance,
Aaron in Australia.
Apple Xserve G5 Single 2GHz, 2GB/750GB Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The answers are yes and yes...
Managing a mail server, even on a Mac, can be complex and require a significant investment in time. If this decision is difficult, imagine trying to make ongoing config decisions, battle spammers, hackers and maintain 24/7 uptime for your users. Are you ready for that?
I would think that your current mail hosting company can host mail for a subdomain, but probably not within the same hosting account. The level 1 people you are talking with may not have a clue. You may need a hosting account for each subdomain (with user accounts in each hosting account). If this email hosting provider doesn't support subdomains, then consider others (really any should). You'll need to make some DNS adjustments, something the hosting company can direct you on.
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