diff --git a/Lib/email/message.py b/Lib/email/message.py
index 08192c50a8ff5c..e7c3a13ca7dd7f 100644
--- a/Lib/email/message.py
+++ b/Lib/email/message.py
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def get_payload(self, i=None, decode=False):
             raise TypeError('Expected list, got %s' % type(self._payload))
         payload = self._payload
         # cte might be a Header, so for now stringify it.
-        cte = str(self.get('content-transfer-encoding', '')).lower()
+        cte = str(self.get('content-transfer-encoding', '')).lower().strip()
         # payload may be bytes here.
         if not decode:
             if isinstance(payload, str) and utils._has_surrogates(payload):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py
index 034f7626c1fc7c..3d832aa4cca14e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py
@@ -985,6 +985,35 @@ def test_get_body_malformed(self):
         # AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'is_attachment'
         m.get_body()
 
+    def test_get_payload_strip_ex_space(self):
+        # gh-123742
+        #
+        # Test whether get_payload can handle extra
+        # spaces in 'content-transfer-encoding' field.
+
+        err_field = 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 '
+        msg = textwrap.dedent(f"""\
+            From: no-reply@example.com
+            To: reciever@example.com
+            Subject: Report
+            MIME-Version: 1.0
+            Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part3035080226180533"
+            Message-ID: <01000191b7fd06ba-d3c9ca36-5171-4a1d-ba3c-b378336cccbc-000000@email.amazonses.com>
+            Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:04:58 +0000
+
+            ------=_Part3035080226180533
+            Content-Disposition: attachment;
+            Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+            {err_field}
+
+            aGVsbG8=
+            ------=_Part3035080226180533
+            Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
+            Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
+            """)
+        m = self._str_msg(msg)
+        recv_m = m.get_payload(0).get_payload(decode=True)
+        self.assertEqual(recv_m, b"hello")
 
 class TestMIMEPart(TestEmailMessageBase, TestEmailBase):
     # Doing the full test run here may seem a bit redundant, since the two
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-09-06-11-58-17.gh-issue-123742.jSBNUv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-09-06-11-58-17.gh-issue-123742.jSBNUv.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..daa63024a48e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-09-06-11-58-17.gh-issue-123742.jSBNUv.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fixed :meth:`!email.Message.get_payload` failing to parse the
+``content-transfer-encoding`` field with extra spaces. It will now
+automatically strip spaces from ``content-transfer-encoding``.