diff --git a/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml b/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml
index 1b3a436ca..4d7e30f4d 100644
--- a/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml
+++ b/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
           document:
             content: "{{ content }}"
             filename: "{{ filename }}.txt"
-            mime_type: text/plain
         headers:
           Authorization: 'Basic {{ (paperlessng_superuser_name + ":" + paperlessng_superuser_password) | b64encode }}'
+          Content-Type: text/plain
         return_content: yes
       register: post_document
       failed_when: "'OK' not in post_document.content"
@@ -45,10 +45,6 @@
       register: logs
       failed_when: "('Consuming ' + filename + '.txt') not in logs.content"
 
-    - name: sleep 5 seconds
-      pause:
-        seconds: 5
-
     - name: verify uploaded document has been consumed
       uri:
         url: "http://{{ paperlessng_listen_address }}:{{ paperlessng_listen_port }}/api/logs/"
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index b99bf11c7..7aadba36d 100755
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ class PostDocumentView(APIView):
                                          dir=settings.SCRATCH_DIR,
                                          delete=False) as f:
             f.write(doc_data)
+            f.flush()
             os.utime(f.name, times=(t, t))
 
             async_task("documents.tasks.consume_file",