Button or keystroke to get email from just one account?

To help filter out spam more (Apple Mail's junk filtering, SpamSieve and my provider's SpamAssassin just don't seem to be up to the task any more) I'm trying to retrieve all my email via Gmail and then POP download from Gmail. Gmail's spam filter seems to be the best so far.
I have 4 email accounts in Apple Mail, and I don't want to disable them all, because I want to be able to send from those accounts, refer to the old mailboxes, etc.
The Get mail button, though, retrieves from all the POP accounts, which defeats the purpose of having Gmail retrieve my POP email for me from those accounts, if I check email all the time, which I do.
Unchecking the "include this account when checking email automatically" doesn't help because I check for mail manually.
So I was wondering - is there a way of putting the menu item "get email from Gmail" onto the menu bar? Or if that is not possible, is it possible to make a keystroke just to check Gmail mail?
Thanks!
doug

I had CMD+G set to check my Gmail POP account. It's been working fine for several days now, ever since I set it. But suddenly the keystroke setting has disappeared from the Mail menu.
It's still in the keyboard shortcut preference panel.
I tried setting it to something else and restarting Mail, but the shortcut doesn't appear anymore!
Any idea what happened and what I need to do so I can set the shortcut again?
Thanks,
doug

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