Hah! - I think this indicates what a pain email confirmations are:
4.5 hours after launch, on one of the major pools (coins4everyone), I was manual payout #1! Perhaps this is why:
To get my manual payment after setting up my account a few hours ago:
I had to log in, enter my pin to get confirmation email, check my email client - no email, log into my online email service, search through the spam folder, mark the email as not spam, copy the confirmation address, paste that address into my browser, enter my wallet address, enter the pin again to update, enter the pin again to activate manual payout, download the email, copy the address, paste the address into my browser, enter the pin again to finally get my payout!
To me, that is complete overkill.
Anyway, I think I'm done ranting for the night. Time for bed.
This is a HUGE issue with the default settings for the newest version of MPOS (the pool software everyone uses). We've been battling it ourselves at HashStrike with our pools. We eventually decided to disable the email confirmations for everything for the time being because of how touchy and non-intuitive it is. So I know exactly what they're going through right now.