Sorry, Geoff, I'm too tired to explain all the reasons, but you have
five mistakes in here:
EXCEPTION = "option1|option2|option3"
:0
* !^TO_(_dot_)*${EXCEPTION}(_dot_)*\(_at_)(_dot_)*
First, you're lacking the "$" modifier to tell procmail to do variable
and command substitution.
Second, the expansion of ^TO_ ends in something that is almost always
better than .* for it, adding .* undoes the good, and it's extremely
unlikely that you want to do that (in rare cases one does, but I've a
feeling this isn't one of those).
Third, unless you put parentheses into the condition somehow around the
alternatives, the result won't be what I'm very sure you want. You can
put them into the definition of the variable
EXCEPTION = '(option1|option2|option3)'
(and 3 1/2th: it's pretty likely that you're better off with apostrophes
than quotation marks, but quotation marks don't hurt)
or into the condition itself,
($EXCEPTION) # braces not needed, but you can put them in if you like
Fourth (and least), you don't have to escape the at-sign.
Fifth, regular expressions are unanchored by default, unlike shell
globbing patterns, so unless you are using the \/ extraction operator to
set MATCH (and you aren't doing that there), a trailing .* is just a
waste of processing cycles.
So,
EXCEPTION = 'option1|option2|option3'
:0
* $ ! ^TO_($EXCEPTION).*@
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