diff --git a/class.phpmailer.php b/class.phpmailer.php
index 4f4d6310..01b70b48 100644
--- a/class.phpmailer.php
+++ b/class.phpmailer.php
@@ -2426,7 +2426,7 @@ class PHPMailer {
           $mimeType  = self::_mime_types($ext);
           if ( strlen($basedir) > 1 && substr($basedir, -1) != '/') { $basedir .= '/'; }
           if ( strlen($directory) > 1 && substr($directory, -1) != '/') { $directory .= '/'; }
-          if ( $this->AddEmbeddedImage($basedir.$directory.$filename, md5($filename), $filename, 'base64', $mimeType) ) {
+          if ( $this->AddEmbeddedImage($basedir.$directory.$filename, md5($url), $filename, 'base64', $mimeType) ) {
             $message = preg_replace("/".$images[1][$i]."=[\"']".preg_quote($url, '/')."[\"']/Ui", $images[1][$i]."=\"".$cid."\"", $message);
           }
         }