How do I set  keyboard shortcut for 'Get Mail'?

Went to system preferences - keyboard - shortcuts - App shortcuts and added Mail.app
Get Mail        cmd  G
However, it doesn't work.  It just makes a nasty noise when I'm in mail and use the shortcut.

The command is Get New Mail. It already has a keyboard shortcut, Shift-Command-N. Command-G is already used for Find Next (i.e., find the next occurrence of a find text).

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