Imap timeout on login

[David Brossard]

    I just recently got roundcube installed with little effort on my 
debian linux box. (Great work on the easy install guys) But when trying 
to connect for the first time It times out on the initial login. I am 
using courier Imap which I understand used to have some wierd socket 
errors but I am hoping someone has found a fix. I have tried both an SSL 
connection and non SSL.  The exact error message from the logs is:

[22-Nov-2005 16:02:03] PHP Fatal error:  Maximum execution time of 120 
seconds exceeded in /var/www/webmail/program/lib/imap.inc on line 104

I set the logging to 8 but there is nothing else logged.
The web brower (mozilla) spins for quite some time and finally stops 
with a blank screen.
During this time Apache also eats up a whole lot of CPU.

Here is some more info:
PHP Version 4.3.10-10ubuntu4.2
Linux 2.6.10-5-686
Apache/2.0.53
mysql  Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.23

As usual TIA