Shortcut in Mail to check one account?

I have 3 email accounts, one of them is only accessible while on a VPN. I have that one set to not be included when Mail automatically checks for email. I'm wondering if there's a shortcut to manually check one or both of those other, non-VPN, accounts. For instance, in previous mail clients, I could click-n-hold Get Mail and get a drop down, or right click the mailbox, but in Mail I've only found the slightly cumbersome use of menus (Mailbox/Get New Mail/specific account.) Can't find a way to add that to the toolbar. Anyone know a trick I'm missing? Thanks.

You can do pretty much the same thing in Mail. If you right/control click the mailbox in question, you'll see an option to +'Get new mail from "xxx"+.

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Copied from your original post.
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