Putting this into my local config /etc/mailman3/mailman3-web.py:
Q_CLUSTER = { 'timeout': 300, 'retry': 360, 'save_limit': 100, 'orm': 'default', 'poll': 5, }..fixed the problem. Looks like the default had no 'retry' and defaulted to something less than 300, possibly 60,
David Koski