Abstract: Disclosed is electronic equipment (e.g., a mobile telephone) and method directed to electronic equipment having an improved electronic mail (E-mail) application for transmitting and/or sending E-mail messages based on one or more characteristics of the E-mail message (e.g., file size). In one embodiment, the user implements a network communication priority list in which the E-mail application utilizes to transmit/receive E-mail messages. In another embodiment the user may specify that E-mail message below a certain threshold value be transmitted through a first communication network (e.g. cellular telephone network) and a second communication network (e.g. LAN/WLAN network) when the E-mail messages are above the threshold limit.