diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index e0f8850..e5891f2 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ def main(driver: Chrome, logger = logging.getLogger('main')):
                 
                 flow.allow(Skip, Cancel)
                 flow.react(Wait)
-                progress['email'] = str(email)
+                progress['email'] = email
                 logger.info('[%d/%d] Sending to %s', index-1, limit-1, email)
                 clean = True
                 error = None
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ def main(driver: Chrome, logger = logging.getLogger('main')):
                 flow.react(Wait)
                 click("div.io-ox-mail-compose-window div[data-extension-id='to'] > div.mail-input")
                 box = locate("div.io-ox-mail-compose-window div[data-extension-id='to'] > div.mail-input input.token-input.tt-input[tabindex='0']")
-                box.send_keys(str(email) + Keys.ENTER)
+                box.send_keys(email + Keys.ENTER)
                 
                 if column.variables in headers and (v := cell(index, column.variables).value) is not None:
                     clean = False
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ def main(driver: Chrome, logger = logging.getLogger('main')):
                 box = locate("div.io-ox-mail-compose-window .mail-input .tokenfield .token")
                 recipient = box.get_attribute('innerText').strip()
                 
-                if recipient != str(email):
+                if recipient != email:
                     logger.warning('Malformed email address detected; retrying (%d)...', attempts)
                     continue