
Article 1 
In Part 1, point 1.1., of the Schengen Consultation Network (Technical Specifications), a new point 1.1.4. is hereby inserted, as shown in the Annex.
Article 2 
This Decision shall apply from 21 December 2007.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community.
Done at Brussels, 6 December 2007.
For the Council
The President
A. COSTA
ANNEX

The following text is inserted in Part 1, point 1.1. — General characteristics of the communication system of the Schengen Consultation Network (Technical Specifications):
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1.1.4. 
Each Schengen State must configure its VISION OPERATIONAL MAIL SYSTEM according to:


— NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
— DNS/HOST FILE: Since there is no common Domain Name Service, it is necessary to add records concerning every remote SMTP server
— Firewall: Open incoming and outgoing packets on port 25.
— MIME CONTENT
The mail server encoding for messages will be configured to these values:
— Content-Type: text/plain RFC 2046
— Charset: iso-8859-15 (Western Europe)
— Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable.
— The SMTP domain used is visionmail.eu, where every Schengen State has its own third-level domain “xx”. This means that each Schengen State must configure its own mail server in order to manage the xx.visionmail.eu SMTP subdomain name (xx is the two-character Schengen State code).
— The recipient mailbox address will be in the format: operxx@xx.visionmail.eu
For Schengen States with a second mailbox (for sending), the sending mailbox address will be in the format:
operxx-out@xx.visionmail.eu (Note: this is an optional address).
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