PHP PHPMailer msgHTML <img href absolute Path

I am not able to find an original PHPMailer documentation and so I try it on this way. My understanding is, that if I use msgHTML the PHPMailer will automatically convert the image to an embedded image in the mail. But I have no idea how I have to include an image as a full adress, for example:C:\\Temp\\Test.jpg!

<img src"C:\\Temp\\Test.jpg> does not work!

How do I have to specify$mail->msgHTML($body, ?????, ????)

Because I don't want to vopy my image inside thewwwroot.

Update For some stupid reason PPHMailer does not allow an emptybasedir. I figured it out, after looked into the source code:

                if (
                //Only process relative URLs if a basedir is provided (i.e. no absolute local paths)
                !empty($basedir)
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Solution:

So the solution for this problem is, to put all images into the same folder, modify the source code or write your own solution withAddEmbeddedImage. What I have done:

             preg_match_all('~<img.*?src=.([\/.a-z0-9:_-]+).*?>~si',$html,$matches);
              $paths = array();
              foreach ($matches[1] as $img) {
                $img_old = $img;
                if(strpos($img, "https://") == false) {
                 $content_id = md5($img);
                 $html = str_replace($img_old,'cid:'.$content_id,$html);
                 $pos = strrpos($img, '/');
                 $name = substr($img, $pos+1);
                 $mail->AddEmbeddedImage($img, $content_id, $name);
                }
           }
           $mail->msgHTML($html);
           $mail->send();
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