[Mailman-Users] "Messages Awaiting Approval" email wildly inaccurate

[Christopher Hatty]

One of our mailman lists sends a daily message saying that it has over 8,000
waiting messages in the queue. This number increases daily no matter what we
do.

Trying to go to its moderation page results in a server error. The server
error in question is the kind that generally requires the use of
mailman/bin/discard in order to get rid of the messages.

Actually running mailman/bin/discard deletes only a few messages, and there
are no remaining messages in mailman/data after this has been run. But the
next day's "waiting messages" email increases, rather than decreasing or
remaining constant.

I think this is the result of someone manually deleting messages from
mailman/data.

Is there any way to fix the problem?

Thanks
Christopher