diff --git a/Lib/email/header.py b/Lib/email/header.py
index 2562b30c167..a0f7c450fcc 100644
--- a/Lib/email/header.py
+++ b/Lib/email/header.py
@@ -483,12 +483,13 @@ class _ValueFormatter:
                         self._current_line.reset(str(holding))
                 return
             elif not nextpart:
-                # There must be some trailing split characters because we
+                # There must be some trailing or duplicated split characters
+                # because we
                 # found a split character but no next part.  In this case we
                 # must treat the thing to fit as the part + splitpart because
                 # if splitpart is whitespace it's not allowed to be the only
                 # thing on the line, and if it's not whitespace we must split
-                # after the syntactic break.  In either case, we're done.
+                # after the syntactic break.
                 holding_prelen = len(holding)
                 holding.push(part + splitpart)
                 if len(holding) + len(self._current_line) <= self._maxlen:
@@ -503,7 +504,7 @@ class _ValueFormatter:
                     self._lines.append(str(self._current_line))
                     holding.reset(save_part)
                     self._current_line.reset(str(holding))
-                return
+                holding.reset()
             elif not part:
                 # We're leading with a split character.  See if the splitpart
                 # and nextpart fits on the current line.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index 244de937706..404282b0ba6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -801,6 +801,16 @@ Subject: the first part of this is short,
 ;
  this_part_does_not_fit_within_maxlinelen_and_thus_should_be_on_a_line_all_by_itself;""")
 
+    def test_long_header_with_multiple_sequential_split_chars(self):
+        # Issue 11492
+
+        eq = self.ndiffAssertEqual
+        h = Header('This is a long line that has two whitespaces  in a row.  '
+            'This used to cause truncation of the header when folded')
+        eq(h.encode(), """\
+This is a long line that has two whitespaces  in a row.  This used to cause
+ truncation of the header when folded""")
+
     def test_no_split_long_header(self):
         eq = self.ndiffAssertEqual
         hstr = 'References: ' + 'x' * 80