Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm not sure how to get to an equivalent screen. I just loaded 16.4, and I'm not seeing any options for immediate delivery. I thought last night, however, that I had solved this problem. But things got even more confusing. I was testing a number of suggested fixes by sending myself mail and seeing whether I got a notification, with or without sound. But at some point I also lost volume on my ringtone. I could not get a ringtone louder than a whisper. I found a suggestion about going to Settings > Accessibility > Face ID & Attention and turning off Attention Aware Features. Weirdly, this seemed to cure both the ringtone and the notification sound problems. Everything was cool until I tried again this morning, when the notification sounds mysteriously went away again. I turned Attention Aware Features on and off again, and for a few moments the notification sound went away. But now it's gone again, and repeating that action does not help. What the ****?