System-wide kb shortcut for mail functions

I'd like to be able to program a system-wide, universal kb shortcut to:
-- start a new, blank mail message
-- check for new mail (in other words, poll my mail server) without bringing mail to the front
ideas? I've been using Butler now for a while and I like it, but it seems limited in its ability to handle something like what I want to do. an automator script could work but I don't know how to assign a script to a system-wide kb shortcut.
thanks!

QuicKeys will let you do pretty well anything.

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