I cannot receive mails on my iMac using OS X Mavericks.

When I open Outlook for Mac 2011 I get the following message:
The server for the account Me returned the failure Login failure
The username is unknown, or the login code no is not correct.
The security settings for the username or login code are possibly not correct. Do you want to enter the login code again.
When I enter my password the accont works until next time I want to check my mail accont. Then it all begins again by entering my login code.
My settings are as follws:
incomming mail: imap.mail.me.com 993
Use SSL to make connection OK
Outgoing mail: smtp.mail.me.com 587
Ignore standard port OK
Use SSL to make connection OK
Can anybody tell me what to do?
Kind regards
Kristian Haahr

When you say you changed your password was that on the gmail site and yet both your phone and pad can still send & receive with the same settings and the original password? That should not happen. If you changed your gmail password no device should be able to connect using the original password.
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