Automatically check for mail

I know that this will sound extremely lazy but I am curious. Can Mail automatically check for new mail every few minutes? I was just curious; I usually use commandshiftn to check for it. Does anyone know? Or that the keyboard shortcut really the one way to do it?

thank you! makes things easier.

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