--- /dev/null
+--- exim-3.36.orig/src/smtp_in.c
++++ exim-3.36/src/smtp_in.c
+@@ -2021,13 +2021,12 @@
+
+ if (!check_helo(smtp_data))
+ {
+- char *s;
+- smtp_printf("501 syntactically invalid %s argument(s)\r\n", hello);
+- if (*smtp_data == 0) strcpy(smtp_data, "(no argument given)");
+- s = string_printing(smtp_data);
++ smtp_printf("501 Syntactically invalid %s argument(s)\r\n", hello);
+ log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_REJECT, "rejected %s from %s: syntactically "
+ "invalid argument(s): %s", hello,
+- (sender_fullhost == NULL)? "local process" : sender_fullhost, s);
++ (sender_fullhost == NULL)? "local process" : sender_fullhost,
++ (*smtp_data == 0)? "(no argument given)" :
++ string_printing(smtp_data));
+ break;
+ }
+