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> Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - 
> maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
> that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
> how much space it is holding.
>
> ////jerry
>
>   

I even restarted the server but the problem is still there.
this is what I got every amount of time (not always).

root     mail.local  8987    3 /tmp          4 -rw-------  616886272 rw

I donīt understand why mail.local is gathering a file that big