diff --git a/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml b/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml
index fde2e8905..4d7e30f4d 100644
--- a/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml
+++ b/ansible/molecule/default/verify.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
     - name: generate random name and content
       set_fact:
-        content: "{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null length=64 chars=ascii_letters') }}\n"
+        content: "{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null length=64 chars=ascii_letters') }}"
         filename: "{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null length=8 chars=ascii_letters') }}"
 
     - name: check if document posting works
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index 7aadba36d..808ecb925 100755
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ class PostDocumentView(APIView):
 
         with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix="paperless-upload-",
                                          dir=settings.SCRATCH_DIR,
+                                         buffering=0,
                                          delete=False) as f:
             f.write(doc_data)
-            f.flush()
             os.utime(f.name, times=(t, t))
 
             async_task("documents.tasks.consume_file",