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Thanks for the replies so far.

In a kinda way, there is a limit to space in puppylinux.

~/.wine, where the pmail program resides is part of what's called personal space.

I have 27MB left in there, but the pmail data is on another external HDD on which at the time of the issue had 500GB free. I cleared some more and have now 2.3GB free. This HDD is /sdb1. (In wine addressed as e:\) The total of pmail data is 1.5GB.

Knowing that pmail uses the /temp directory I cleaned it and this seemed to give a bit of more relieve. 

Maybe the 27MB left for /temp is considered too low compared to the 1.5GB of data already there. 

Hence my question how the pmail program defines when there is too little space.

I'll see at the wine 1.1.16 as well and come back if this has (or not) solved the issue.

This may take a while, as I depend on the developers of puppylinux to make 1.1.16 available as a installable package. 

 EDIT

Forgot to say in puppylinux one runs as root. 

In one of my accounts, while I still have +500MB free on the HDD, I get the message very little space left, dangerous to continue.
I went into selective download and downloade a mail wit a 2MB attachement.
After this I could download all other mails.

I have heard of this problem before running Pmail in MS windows, but can't remember what the definit cure was.
For the record I run Pmail in Wine.

My wine is 1.1.14 and it runs in PuppyLinux

Pmail is 4.4.1

Anybody an idea, as it starts to spread to other accounts as well.

Is pmail confused about wine?

How is the remaining free space calculated?

Do you have any quotas set up on your linux?

[quote user="Béèm"]In one of my accounts, while I still have +500MB free on the HDD, I get the message very little space left, dangerous to continue.

I went into selective download and download a mail wit a 2MB attachment.
After this I could download all other mails.

Quotas could limit the space available.The account may also be assigned to a user with less than full rights.  Also the TEMP directory is used a lot and so limits there may be causing the problem.

I have heard of this problem before running Pmail in MS windows, but can't remember what the definite cure was.

For the record I run Pmail in Wine.

My wine is 1.1.14 and it runs in PuppyLinux

Should upgrade to v1.1.16 since in fixes a number of Wine & PMail problems.

Pmail is 4.4.1

Anybody an idea, as it starts to spread to other accounts as well.

Is pmail confused about wine?

There are a number of Windows that are not fully supported in Wine.   Most anything can be related to Wine of maybe even the specific version of Linux you are using.

How is the remaining free space calculated?[/quote]