diff --git a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
index 29718957a68a9b..304d69c6ef0161 100644
--- a/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
+++ b/Lib/email/_parseaddr.py
@@ -352,6 +352,8 @@ def getrouteaddr(self):
             elif self.field[self.pos] == '@':
                 self.pos += 1
                 expectroute = True
+            elif self.field[self.pos] == ',':
+                self.pos += 1
             elif self.field[self.pos] == ':':
                 self.pos += 1
             else:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index 2a5794a5b66fc5..69e7b2644657c7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -3344,6 +3344,14 @@ def test_parseaddr_preserves_spaces_in_local_part(self):
         self.assertEqual(('', 'merwok.wok.wok@xample.com'),
             utils.parseaddr('merwok. wok .  wok@xample.com'))
 
+    def test_parseaddr_handles_obsolete_addressing(self):
+        self.assertEqual(('foobar', 'foo@bar.com'),
+            utils.parseaddr('"foobar" <@hop.org:foo@bar.com>'))
+        self.assertEqual(('foobar', 'foo@bar.com'),
+            utils.parseaddr('"foobar" <@hop1.org,@hop2.org:foo@bar.com>'))
+        self.assertEqual(('foobar', 'foo@bar.com'),
+            utils.parseaddr('"foobar" <@hop1.org, @hop2.org, @hop3.org:foo@bar.com>'))
+
     def test_formataddr_does_not_quote_parens_in_quoted_string(self):
         addr = ("'foo@example.com' (foo@example.com)",
                 'foo@example.com')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-28-01-34-00.gh-issue-40889.route-hops.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-28-01-34-00.gh-issue-40889.route-hops.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9670c6577ee2f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-28-01-34-00.gh-issue-40889.route-hops.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix :func:`email.utils.parseaddr` to handle routes with multiple intermediate hops
+(see :rfc:`RFC 2822, Section 4.4 <2822#section-4.4>`).