Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Email box" in English language version.
In addition to authentication and mailbox location, the mail delivery agent also knows about mailbox quotas which we impose on our subscribers. If the current mailbox size is over the quota for that user, the default being 10 MB, then the message is bounced back to the MTA with reason, "User npc, mailbox full." In addition to preventing resource abuse on the part of subscribers, this also helps mitigate possible damaging effects of mail bombing by malicious people on the Internet. We believe that a 10 MB quota is quite generous, especially considering over a 28.8 modem using very high quality line speeds and no network bottlenecks, one could expect to take over an hour to download the contents of a 10 MB mailbox.
